Re: pg_xlog and standby - SOLVED

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Erik Jones wrote:

> To disable archiving, set archive_command="", commenting it out won't
> change it...However, commenting a config is not necessarily equivalent
> to disabling something.

This is actually a problem that is corrected in the upcoming 8.3 release.
From those release notes:

"Commenting out a parameter in postgresql.conf now causes it to revert to
its default value.  [In 8.2 and earlier releases] commenting out an entry
left the parameter's value unchanged until the next server restart."

This is probably why Roberto didn't see the expected behavior until a
server restart.

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