Re: guc patch: Make variables fall back to default values

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joachim Wieland" <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
Subject: Re: guc patch: Make variables fall back to default values
Date: 2007-03-12 23:43:27
Message-ID: 87ird6owo0.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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"Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:

> Joachim Wieland wrote:
>> Attached is the long-awaited guc patch that makes values fall back to
>> their default values when they got removed (or commented) from the
>> configuration file. This has always been a source of confusion.
>
> I have applied your patch with some of the discussed corrections. The
> use of memory allocation in the GUC code might still need some review.

This is a pretty major user-visible change. While I'm strongly in favour of it
it seems like there ought to be some documentation file touched by this, no?
Or have I missed it?

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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