I've just spent a day working through the current set of server configuration parameters, and I think that the documentation at <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/runtime-config.html> has reached its peak of unusability. I haven't been able to find a single parameter all day except by using a text search over the file.
A couple of obvious faults: - There are too many sections. - The sections don't have any obvious order. - The subsections don't have any obvious order. - The lists of individual parameters inside the sections don't have any order. - If a parameter has a list of possible values, the values are not listed in a consistent order. I have made an attempt and reformatted the whole section into one big alphabetical list, and while that has obvious drawbacks, I feel that it's already much more usable than what we have now. Other ideas? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
