Re: Improving postgresql.conf

Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:02, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>>Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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>>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>| Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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>>>|>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>|> > I understand your points below.  However, the group has weighed in the
>>>|> > direction of clearly showing non-default values and not duplicating
>>>|> > documentation.  We can change that, but you will need more folks
>>>|> > agreeing with your direction.
>>>|>
>>>|>I don't remember the behaviour but tell me what happen if
>>>|>I comment out a value changing the value. Kill UP the postmater.
>>>|>Recommenting that value and now re killing the postmaster.
>>>|>
>>>|>I believe that postmaster will not run with the default value.
>>>|>Who will look the configuration file will not understand the right
>>>|>reality.
>>>|
>>>|
>>>| If you comment a variable in postgresql.conf, it will use the
>>>| default value.
>>>
>>>That's not true at least with the version 7.4.2.
>>>
>>>Try yourself, I did the experiment changing the cpu_tuple_cost and
>>>commenting out the cpu_tuple_cost, after sending the SIGHUP to
>>>postmaster the value remain: 0.005 that is not the default value at
>>>all.
>>
>>Oh, sorry, you are right.  Not sure if this is a bug or not.
> 
> 
> This point has come up before, and I think it's intended behavior. 
> Stopping and restarting the database will, of course, make it load the
> defaults.

Yes and this doesn't help to understand how the postmaster is running
unless you use SHOW ALL.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola