Re: Modifying postgresql.org file

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:20 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:15:46AM -0800, Ken Hill wrote:
> > It has been suggested to me to increase my work_mem to make queries
> > preform faster. I believe I do this in the 'postgresql.org' file. I
> > seem to have two of these files:
> >
> > /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/postgresql.org
> > /usr/share/postgresql/7.4/postgresql.conf.sample
>
> Where did you get this version of Postgres? The main config file
> should be $PGDATA/postgresql.conf. Anything else is probably the
> result of your system's packaging having done some magic. But in any
> case, unless I'm misremembering, the work_mem setting isn't in 7.4.
>
> You can check the docs on postgresql.org. There's a whole section on
> the configuration variables, and manuals are available for several
> releases back.
>
> A
>

This is how Ubuntu installed postgresql via it's synaptic package
manager.