Re: .conf File Organization

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-06-12T19:49:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom,

> Do you have a better organizing principle than what's there now?

It's mostly detail stuff: putting VACUUM and Autovac together, breaking up 
some subsections that now have too many options in them into grouped. 

Client Connection Defaults has somehow become a catchall secton for *any* 
USERSET variable, regardless of purpose.  I'd like to trim it back down and 
assign some of those variables to appropriate sections. 

On the more hypothetical basis I was thinking of adding a section at the top 
with the 7-9 most common options that people *need* to set; this would make 
PostgreSQL.conf much more accessable but would result in duplicate options 
which might cause some issues.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco