Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

From: Tilo Schwarz <mail(at)tilo-schwarz(dot)de>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]
Date: 2003-02-19 22:22:44
Message-ID: 200302192322.44593.mail@tilo-schwarz.de
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> People seemed to like the idea:
>
> Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune
> postgresql.conf.
>

Definitely! But it should have some sort of "This is my first database
installation"-mode, which means, that either only some very basic questions
(or none at all) are asked, or each question is followed by a reasonable
default value and a "if unsure, press <ENTER>" message. Otherwise the first
time user might get scared of all those questions...

Tilo

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