| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_config, pg_service.conf, postgresql.conf .... |
| Date: | 2006-02-25 03:27:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200602250327.k1P3RS213947@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Mark Woodward wrote:
> > If you require a policy, then YOU are free to choose the policy that
> > YOU need. You're not forced to accept other peoples' policies that
> > may conflict with things in your environment.
>
> The problem is that there is no mechanism through which one can implement
> policy. You are left to "roll your own" each and every time. A mechanism
> provided, but not enforced, by postgresql would go a LONG way toward
> enabling a coherent policy.
Unless you can have +80% of sites using the default, it isn't worth it
and is more confusing than if you had never created it at all. What is
wrong with defining an environment variable in /etc/profile?
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Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us
SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com
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