On May 31, 2008, at 15:32, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
1. Most people have no idea how to set these.
Could you clarify this? I can't really believe that people are
incapable of
editing a configuration file.
I've been using PostgreSQL on and off, mostly on, for almost 10 years.
I still have no idea what 75% of those settings in postgresql.conf
mean or are for. There are an overwhelming number of them. I know that
5-8 of them I always touch, thanks largely to assistance now and then
from Josh Berkus, but the rest are just complexity to me. I don't
doubt that the vast majority of them are useful in one situation or
another, but unless I'm in one of those situations, I really don't
need to see them there and be confused by them.
Does that help?
2. The current postgresql.conf file is a huge mess of 194 options,
the
vast majority of which most users will never touch.
My opinion has always been that we should provide a default file
with only the
essential options instead of all of them. I see this as a the major
problem,
because people are overwhelmed and consequently don't set anything.
+1
Best,
David
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