Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi�:
>> Personally I think this is just a matter of usage. If you want to use
>> SET PERSISTENT, don't set values manually in postgresql.conf.
> I agree, except that some things are defined in postgresql.conf by
> initdb and you probably want to be able to change them by SET PERSISTENT
> anyway (e.g. lc_messages, listen_addresses, shared_buffers)
Well, initdb would also find it a lot easier to dump its settings into a
machine-generated file. I don't think we have to continue doing things
exactly the same way there.
regards, tom lane
