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Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, 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: 2008-08-20T03:19:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

On idea is for postgresql.conf to merely include other files:

	include 'sharedmem.conf'
	include 'compat.conf'
	...

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