Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
>>>> Hmm, let me suggest providing it as a manpage for postgresql.conf, i.e.,
>>>> you run "man postgresql.conf" and it gives you this manpage documenting
>>>> every option.
>>> Seems a bit Unix-centric, but +1 for it on Unix machines anyway.
>>> Is there any near equivalent on Windows?
>> No. There are helpfiles (which consist of a navigation tree and a
>> bunch of pages), but they're what we use for the main docs. There's
>> nothing akin to a man page.
>
> Well, so we provide a reference to the help file and that's it. If
> there's a way to provide a link in the config file that would
> automatically open the appropriate help file on click, that would be
> perfect.

It's a text file. You can't put a clickable link in a textfile. You can
put a regular http link that the user can copy/paste into his browser,
if you want to.

AFAIK, you can't create a link that points into a CHM helpfile - you can
only point to the helpfile itself, not to a specific section in it.

We could just generate a HTML file with the same contents as the
man-page though, and link to that - thus not having to link out onto the
internet which really shouldn't be accessible from your database server :-)

//Magnus