(I always forget what the magic numbers 0 through 2 means for the

"syslog" option.)

By the way: The "virtual_host" parameter is a bad name for that
particular option, I think. "Virtual host" signals that PostgreSQL will
behave differently according to which IP address it's contacted (like
Apache's virtual host support which makes the web-server serve different
sites according to different criteria). A better word for the options
would be "tcpip_listen_addr" or something like that.

Troels Arvin

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
index 6ed1aae20813359bd469944945189f7bbe12e231..f506474c5eb7be8843efe40bb8000c3afe244a01 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #unix_socket_directory = ''
 #unix_socket_group = ''
 #unix_socket_permissions = 0777        # octal
-#virtual_host = ''
+#virtual_host = ''             # what interface to listen on; defaults to any
 #rendezvous_name = ''          # defaults to the computer name
 
 # - Security & Authentication -
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 
 # - Syslog -
 
-#syslog = 0                    # range 0-2
+#syslog = 0                    # range 0-2; 0=stdout; 1=both; 2=syslog
 #syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
 #syslog_ident = 'postgres'