"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> I'm not much into MySQL, but in the work I've done with it, I've had
> to create /etc/my.cnf myself. There *is* no configuration file
> configuring MySQL until that file is created, is there? So there is no
> configuration to learn at first.
Postgres will start happily with an empty configuration file, too.
What's your point?
regards, tom lane