Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, why not just make a one-eighty and say that the default
>> postgresql.conf is *empty* (except for whatever initdb puts into it)?
> I guess it would depend on what initdb puts into it.
Per the code:
max_connections
shared_buffers
max_fsm_pages (slated to die anyway in 8.4)
lc_messages
lc_monetary
lc_numeric
lc_time
datestyle
default_text_search_config
The first three of those are derived from probing the SHMMAX setting,
and the rest are from the initdb-time locale settings.
regards, tom lane