Re: Permanent settings

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Permanent settings
Date: 2008-02-20 23:51:06
Message-ID: 20080220155106.7df9cf33@commandprompt.com
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:38:10 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> > * Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> [080220 18:00]:
> >> We need a server-based tool for the manipulating postgresql.conf,
> >> and one which is network-accessable, allows updating individual
> >> settings,
>
> > Do we need to develop our own set of "remote management"
> > tools/systems, or possibly document some best practices using
> > already available "multi- server managment" tools?
>
> Indeed. If Josh's argument were correct, why isn't every other daemon
> on the planet moving away from textual configuration files?

I believe the more correct argument would be to look at how our
competition is doing this, and perhaps learn from them. How does
Oracle, MSSQL, and DB2 handle this? Yes I purposely left out the
dolphin tamers.

Joshua D. Drake

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