Re: Inconsistency between postgresql.conf and docs

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>> My preference would be to have:
>>>
>>> # REPLICATION
>>>
>>> # - Master Settings -
>>> # these settings affect the master role in replication
>>> # they will be ignored on the standby
>>>
>>> ... settings ...
>>>
>>> # - Standby Settings -
>>> # these settings affect the standby role in replication
>>> # they will be ignored on the master
>>>
>>> ... settings ...
>>>
>>>
>>> That's how I've been setting up the file for my customers; it's fairly
>>> clear and understandable.
>
>> Looks better than it's now. Anyway, if you change those, you would
>> need to change also the config_group in guc.c.
>
> OK, so the plan is to move these settings into a separate top-level
> group "Replication", and sub-divide into master and standby settings,
> removing the current classification for "streaming" versus
> "synchronous"?  That makes sense to me too, but it touches code as
> well as docs ... last call for objections ...

None here.  +1.

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