Re: About the pid and opts files

Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Right --- it should be *possible* to change these vars, but it should
>> take some explicit action.  Having a different value in your environment
>> at postmaster start time is probably not enough of an explicit action.
>> 
>> This whole thread makes me more and more uncomfortable about the fact
>> that the postmaster/backend pay attention to environment variables at
>> all.  An explicit configuration file would seem a better answer.

> Why a configuration file? Why not a configuration table?

Circularity.  A lot of this stuff has to be known before we dare touch
the database at all.
        regards, tom lane