On Monday 27 February 2006 21:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> One question I have is how this feature would be an improvement over
> just pointing pg_ctl at a postgresql.conf configuration file. That
> config file has the ability to specify most if not all server
> parameters.
The big problem is that postgresql.conf is dynamically generated during
initdb, and its location depends upon initdb's parameters directly. This
makes it difficult to distribute, at least for packagers, a template of
postgresql.conf or a 'default' postgresql.conf that plays nice with multiple
versions and clusters, yet has centralized database tracking.
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