Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:39:39PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 19:12:16 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Well, why not just make a one-eighty and say that the default
> > postgresql.conf is *empty* (except for whatever initdb puts into it)?
> 
> Well, my original implementation of GUC had an empty default configuration 
> file, which was later craptaculated to its current form based on seemingly 
> popular demand.  I am very happy to work back toward the empty state, and 
> there appears to be growing support for that.

I like the almost empty file idea.

I often use the include facility to setup postgresql.conf files
that look roughly like this:

  #include postgresql_site_policy.conf
  #include postgresql_<host_class>.conf
  listen_port=9999

where the included files set things like the overall sites logging
preferences and buffer_cache and workmen based on installed memory and
disk system (ex: postgresql_32GB.conf) etc.

-dg


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