| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf |
| Date: | 2008-08-20 03:19:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200808200319.m7K3JRl06756@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> > I'd still like to see us adopt the proposal from some time ago where
> > we stop commenting out the parameters at all, but short of that,
> > hiding options seems about the worst choice we could make.
>
> Well, there seems to be a very substantial body of opinion that says
> we *do* need to hide "uninteresting" options. How many are
> "interesting" is certainly open to debate, but as far as I can tell
> most people think it's a short list, not "all of them".
>
> In short, you're in the minority.
On idea is for postgresql.conf to merely include other files:
include 'sharedmem.conf'
include 'compat.conf'
...
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