Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re:

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
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>>May I make a suggestion that maybe it is time to start thinking about
>>tuning the default config file, IMHO its just a little bit too
>>conservative,
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>It's a lot too conservative.  I've been thinking for awhile that we
>should adjust the defaults.
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One of the things I did on my Windows install was to have a number of 
default configuration files, postgresql.conf.small, 
postgresql.conf.medium, postgresql.conf.large.

Rather than choose one, in the "initdb" script, ask for or determine the 
mount of shared memory, memory, etc.

Another pet peeve I have is forcing the configuration files to be in the 
database directory. We had this argument in 7.1 days, and I submitted a 
patch that allowed a configuration file to be specified as a command 
line parameter. One of the things that Oracle does better is separating 
the "configuration" from the data.

It is an easy patch to allow PostgreSQL to use a separate configuration 
directory, and specify the data directory within the configuration file 
(The way any logical application works), and, NO, symlinks are not a 
solution, they are a kludge.