Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Perhaps it would be better to have prose explaining all the stuff
> > > structured like Scott proposes, and make the postgresql.conf be just a
> > > reference linking to that. I don't think making postgresql.conf be the
> > > primary documentation is very nice.
> >
> > So you are suggesting splitting out the postgresql.conf content into its
> > relevant sections and just linking to it? That would work.
>
> Yes, or something like that. I don't think leaving _just_ the links on
> the postgresql.conf would be enough. But a comprehensive, verbose
> explanation should be elsewhere; a short blurb and the link would remain
> on the postgresql.conf reference.
Yea, that's certainly possible, though right now we pretty much have
_all_ the information about each configuration value in one place. We
would lose that. Looking at the connection postgresql.conf docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-connection.html
There isn't much additional text except a description of each item.
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