Re: TODO questions

>>The idea here is the when you comment something out, it should restore
>>its default.  Right now it keeps the previously uncommented out value,
>>which confuses people.
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>But the contrary position is that a comment is a comment, not something
>that should act to change the state of the postmaster.
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Not in any conf I have ever seen. If I comment out a parameter
I expect that the parameter will either be disabled or set to the
default depending on the parameter.

#fsync = false

Should mean:

fsync = false

--

fsync = true

Should mean:

fsync = true

--

#fsync = true:

Should mean:

fsync = false

If false is the default value.

--

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>It's probably worth pointing out that there's not consensus about all
>of the TODO items, particularly not the ones Bruce has marked with
>question marks.
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>            regards, tom lane
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