On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
Uh, either your memory is poor or you need to review the mailing list archives again.
Just did, and apparently the search functionality on the archives has a poor memory, too.
Seriously, this has been a long-standing ask, to make more config settings modifiable at runtime.
Seriously, I've been on this list and part of the community for about a decade, and, no, there have been very few such requests.
Can you point to even one such request this year, for instance?
Perhaps the way compression has been implemented wasn't perfect, but it was a start, and I think Jeff's suggestion of shipping a filter proc that enables compression server-wide by default is the right answer. Making the setting purely config-driven is just perpetuating the "sorry, config settings need restarts" problem.
People who want can use an explicit call to ns_returnz or whatever one wants to call it.
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