Re: postgresql.conf Docs

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 09:23 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Yes. In fact, here's what's going to happen in the near future:
>
> 1) I will be providing completed tables for all variables for both
> 7.3.3 and
> 7.4 beta.
>
> 2) We will be re-ordering the Postgresql.conf variables for the 7.4
> release
> based on the more logical order I proposed, so that the order and
> grouping of
> variables in the table will match Postgresql.conf and vice-versa (also
> the
> official online docs).
>
> 3) I will be talking about this stuff at length at the next meeting.
> Be
> there!

Great news, all around. Please post when the docs are on a web page
somewhere that I can point people to.

>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/bricolage/bricolage/
>> lib/
>> Bric/DBA.pod?rev=1.9.2.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>>
>> See the "Performance Tuning" section for the changes I made. An old
>> example was setting shared_buffers to 20000!
>
> Yeah, a lot of people made that mistake. Wanna print out that doc
> and bring
> it with to the next meeting?

Sure. I'll make a note to myself, now.

I just updated it again, adding a section on max_connections:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/bricolage/bricolage/lib/
Bric/DBA.pod?rev=1.9.2.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Regards,

David

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