Tom Lane wrote:
One of the things I did on my Windows install was to have a number of default configuration files, postgresql.conf.small, postgresql.conf.medium, postgresql.conf.large."Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:May I make a suggestion that maybe it is time to start thinking about tuning the default config file, IMHO its just a little bit too conservative,It's a lot too conservative. I've been thinking for awhile that we should adjust the defaults.
Rather than choose one, in the "initdb" script, ask for or determine the mount of shared memory, memory, etc.
Another pet peeve I have is forcing the configuration files to be in the database directory. We had this argument in 7.1 days, and I submitted a patch that allowed a configuration file to be specified as a command line parameter. One of the things that Oracle does better is separating the "configuration" from the data.
It is an easy patch to allow PostgreSQL to use a separate configuration directory, and specify the data directory within the configuration file (The way any logical application works), and, NO, symlinks are not a solution, they are a kludge.
