Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

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.