Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres@cybertec.at>
Date: 2008-08-20T02:40:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.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.

			regards, tom lane