Re: shrinking the postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: shrinking the postgresql.conf
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Msg-id 42F78452.1010806@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: shrinking the postgresql.conf  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> 
>>As I have been laboring over the documentation of the postgresql.conf 
>>file for 8.1dev it seems that it may be useful to rip out most of the 
>>options in this file?
> 
> 
> What?  The contents of postgresql.conf *are* documentation.

Yes there are documentation bits in the postgresql.conf but they are in
no way the level of what a book entails, or even a badly written article.

My actual point was that we could put a lot of the options in a global 
table that could be adjusted versus having the flat file.

Sincerely,

Joshua D> Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane


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