"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IMO this should all be in the database and that's it. The idea that our
> global settings are in a file seems unusual consider we have a
> perfectly good storage engine available.
The sufficient reason why not is that many of these settings must be
available before we can read the database.
regards, tom lane
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