Thanks for the reply, Been reading hackers of Aug 2004 and found the threads. It's a common habit to create two lines on the configuration files, in order to maintain the copy of the default conf file. I guess this should be the worst scenery for a freshly incoming DBA trying to put things in order.
A temporary patch, will be updating documentation, encouraging administrators to use the SHOW ALL; command in the psql env, to confirm that changes where made. In my case, a 1.2 gig file was written, performance was on the floor. And my previous situation, a reindex force task last saturday, confused me. This is not a trivial problem, but in conjunction with other small problems could become a big one. Good habits when touching conf files & using the SHOW ALL to confirm that changes where made will help until this is patched. Thanks for Postgres, Regards, Guido. > This issue was resently discussed on hackers. It is a known issue, not very > convinient for the user. Nevertheless it is not fixed in 8.0, but will > perhaps be addressed in the next major release. > (Remembering, it was a non-trivial thing to change.) > > Best Regards, > Michael Paesold > > G u i d o B a r o s i o wrote: > > > The solution appeared as something I didn't know > > > > On the .conf file > > > > Previous situation: > > > > #log_something=false > > log_something=true > > > > Worst situation > > #log_something=false > > #log_something=true > > > > Nice situation > > log_something=false > > #log_something=true > > > > > > Ok, the problem was that I assumed that commenting a value on > > the conf file will set it up to a default (false?). I was wrong. > > My server was writting tons of log's. > > > > Is this the normal behavior for pg_ctl reload? It seems that looks for new > values, remembering the last state on the ones that actually are commented. > Although it's my fault to have 2 (tow) lines for the same issue, and that I > should realize that this is MY MISTAKE, the log defaults on a reload, if > commented, tend to be the last value entered? > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
