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Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres@cybertec.at>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-08-19T17:30:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:34 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
 
> I'm really not in favor of having comments in the conf file that try
> to tell you about stuff you might want to set, much less why.  That
> task properly belongs to some kind of introductory chapter in the
> SGML docs. Novice DBAs are unlikely even to *find* the config file,
> let alone look inside it, if there's not an introductory chapter
> telling them about Things They Ought To Do.

I would be willing to work up a patch that does as you suggest.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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