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Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 1/4/26 12:26 AM, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
>> <Moving this discussion to pgsql-docs, with accompanying patch>

> If we move the GUC in the documentation shouldn't we also move it in 
> postgresql.conf.sample? The sections in the documentation and the 
> sections in the sample config file seem to be the same.

You would also need to change the group that the GUC is assigned to
in guc_parameters.dat.  So this isn't really a docs-only patch.
(I agree that the GUC seems misclassified as-is.)

			regards, tom lane