Re: About the pid and opts files

Tom Lane wrote:

> Right --- it should be *possible* to change these vars, but it should
> take some explicit action.  Having a different value in your environment
> at postmaster start time is probably not enough of an explicit action.
> 
> This whole thread makes me more and more uncomfortable about the fact
> that the postmaster/backend pay attention to environment variables at
> all.  An explicit configuration file would seem a better answer.

Why a configuration file? Why not a configuration table?