Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> 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?
Circularity. A lot of this stuff has to be known before we dare touch
the database at all.
regards, tom lane
