On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Erik Jones wrote:
To disable archiving, set archive_command="", commenting it out won't change it...However, commenting a config is not necessarily equivalent to disabling something.
This is actually a problem that is corrected in the upcoming 8.3 release.
From those release notes:
"Commenting out a parameter in postgresql.conf now causes it to revert to its default value. [In 8.2 and earlier releases] commenting out an entry left the parameter's value unchanged until the next server restart."
This is probably why Roberto didn't see the expected behavior until a server restart.
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