Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > - If we know better values, why don't we set them by default?
>
> The problem is: better for what? In particular, I'm uncomfortable with
> any changes in the direction of trying to make Postgres take over the
> entire machine by default. I'd want some fairly explicit permission
> from the user for that ...
Yes, those are decisions we are going to have to make, eventually. But recall
the three step process:
1. What values need changing?
2. What to change them to?
3. Could that be the new default value?
I haven't seen a proposal for item 1 yet, so the rest is idle discussion at
this time.
