Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization

2007-06-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Doesn't sound like a good idea, but maybe there's a case for a comment > there saying "these are the most important ones to look at"? Yeah, probably need to do that. Seems user-unfriendly, but loading a foot gun by having some options appear twice in the file seems much worse. I'll also

Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the more hypothetical basis I was thinking of adding a section at the top > with the 7-9 most common options that people *need* to set; this would make > PostgreSQL.conf much more accessable but would result in duplicate options > which might cause so

Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization

2007-06-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Do you have a better organizing principle than what's there now? It's mostly detail stuff: putting VACUUM and Autovac together, breaking up some subsections that now have too many options in them into grouped. Client Connection Defaults has somehow become a catchall secton for *any* US

Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization WAS: Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This brings up another point. With the increased number of .conf > options, the file is getting hard to read again. I'd like to do another > reorganization, but I don't really want to break people's diff scripts. Do you have a better organizing princ

Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization WAS: Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: All, This brings up another point. With the increased number of .conf options, the file is getting hard to read again. I'd like to do another reorganization, but I don't really want to break people's diff scripts. Should I worry about that? As a point of feedback, aut

Re: [HACKERS] .conf File Organization WAS: Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-07 Thread Josh Berkus
All, This brings up another point. With the increased number of .conf options, the file is getting hard to read again. I'd like to do another reorganization, but I don't really want to break people's diff scripts. Should I worry about that? --Josh ---(end of broa