Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports succes when start fails)

2003-10-28 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:22:32 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The low-tech solution to this would be to stop listing the default >values as commented-out entries, but just make them ordinary uncommented >entries. Please not. How should we ask a newbie seeking assistance on one of the s

Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports

2003-10-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
However, you're not the first to get burnt by this mis-assumption, so maybe we should do something about it. The low-tech solution to this would be to stop listing the default values as commented-out entries, but just make them ordinary uncommented entries. That way people who think "undoing my ed

Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Brusser
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shouldn't it revert to the default value? > > No, not unless you think the postmaster should react to comments in the > postgresql.conf file, which is rather against my idea of a comment. > > However, you're not the first to get burnt by t