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Re: To John Naylor
> Or perhaps leave the door open for picking a better default in the future?
> 
>      The value <literal>on</literal> is currently an alias for <literal>pglz</literal>.

> Maybe we should also update the postgresql.conf.sample:

I'm attaching v2 that implements this (without the "currently").

Christoph

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