Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf
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Msg-id 200808192238.07430.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Responses Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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On Tuesday 19 August 2008 22:12:47 Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> moving the documentation further away from it is the wrong idea,
> especially if it means firing up a web browser to do so.

I can see that argument, but I think we can quite simply solve it if we 
provide a plain-text version of the configuration chapter of the 
documentation.  You can easily grep that in a second window and don't have to 
be in-your-face to users who just want to edit the settings.

> Text space is cheap,

I'd offer the alternative theory that anything that is longer than one screen 
is overwhelming and unwieldy.


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