Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:34 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm really not in favor of having comments in the conf file that try
> to tell you about stuff you might want to set, much less why.  That
> task properly belongs to some kind of introductory chapter in the
> SGML docs. Novice DBAs are unlikely even to *find* the config file,
> let alone look inside it, if there's not an introductory chapter
> telling them about Things They Ought To Do.

I would be willing to work up a patch that does as you suggest.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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