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

From Michael Paesold
Subject Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf
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In response to Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 19:12:16 Tom Lane 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)?
>
> Well, my original implementation of GUC had an empty default  
> configuration
> file, which was later craptaculated to its current form based on  
> seemingly
> popular demand.  I am very happy to work back toward the empty  
> state, and
> there appears to be growing support for that.

Yeah, +1 from me.

Perhaps we should still add some comments about the parameters changed  
most often, including a link to the documentation of GUC parameters.  
As a kind of starting point for (new) users.

Best Regards
Michael Paesold


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