Joachim Wieland <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> There's been various discussions in the past about making this behavior >> less non-intuitive, but nothing's been settled on ... > So what about deciding now that it should be changed. What are the reasons > for why it should be kept as it is? 1. Backwards compatibility. 2. A comment is a comment. > - other unix daemons reset their values to defaults before reading > conffiles Examples please? regards, tom lane