Greg,
> This actually seems like a bad idea to me.
You write your tool your way, I'll write my tool mine. We'll see which
one works the best in the field.
> Well you're assuming there's only one tool generating this config? We
> have at least two and possibly more. initdb generates an initial set
> of defaults, the user may well run some kind of autotuning program,
> and then they also have variables set by SET PERSISTENT. That's three
> pieces of configuration being edited by different pieces of software.
Well, that's what I'd call a bad idea. Mixing external autotuner which
writes to files with SET PERSISTENT?
--Josh Berkus