Re: [SQL] Modifying postgresql.org file

[Ken Hill]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:20 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:15:46AM -0800, Ken Hill wrote:
> It has been suggested to me to increase my work_mem to make queries
> preform faster. I believe I do this in the 'postgresql.org' file.  I
> seem to have two of these files:
> 
> /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/postgresql.org
> /usr/share/postgresql/7.4/postgresql.conf.sample

Where did you get this version of Postgres?  The main config file
should be $PGDATA/postgresql.conf.  Anything else is probably the
result of your system's packaging having done some magic.  But in any
case, unless I'm misremembering, the work_mem setting isn't in 7.4.

You can check the docs on postgresql.org.  There's a whole section on
the configuration variables, and manuals are available for several
releases back.

A

This is how Ubuntu installed postgresql via it's synaptic package manager.