Re: Eurodates by default

Yury Bokhoncovich <byg(at)center-f1(dot)ru> writes:
> Anyway this closely resembles what with-maxbackends does:
> 1) if you have not specify with-maxbackends number, Pg will have some
> reasonable defaults (compile time, yes?)
> 2) you can change this value at run time (-N option or var in conf file)

> Are you planning to delete that option too?;)

A poor choice of example, because in fact I am planning to delete it ;-).
There's no need for it anymore, because there's no longer any compile-
time limit on MaxBackends. In general we'd like to move away from
compile-time feature settings, except for cases like SSL or Kerberos
support where the feature depends on software you may not have.

I don't really see why you think it's preferable to use an extra
configure switch than to set a variable in postgresql.conf.

regards, tom lane