On Jan 24, 2008 4:30 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
in fact, googling for the problem i found those release notes that led me to think that the restart was necessary... :D -- Roberto Scattini ___ _ ))_) __ )L __ ((__)(('(( ((_) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/