On Monday 27 February 2006 21:09, Bruce Momjian wrote: > One question I have is how this feature would be an improvement over > just pointing pg_ctl at a postgresql.conf configuration file. That > config file has the ability to specify most if not all server > parameters.
The big problem is that postgresql.conf is dynamically generated during initdb, and its location depends upon initdb's parameters directly. This makes it difficult to distribute, at least for packagers, a template of postgresql.conf or a 'default' postgresql.conf that plays nice with multiple versions and clusters, yet has centralized database tracking. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
