Re: About the pid and opts files

Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
>>>> Why a configuration file? Why not a configuration table?
>> 
>> Circularity.  A lot of this stuff has to be known before we dare touch
>> the database at all.

> Aren't there other things like pg_database that survive this problem?

Er, have you dug into the code that does the initial access of
pg_database?  I want to get rid of that kluge, not add more...

			regards, tom lane