Tom,
> Wrong on both counts: it's not really minor (if it were, it would have
> got done) and you will need to touch the code. See the earlier
> discussion. There are several defaults that are presently determined
> at compile time and are not correctly reflected into
> postgresql.conf.sample. We'd have to clean that up before we can do
> something like this.
I think we can work around that. Putting those few parameters in as:
#SORT_LOCALE = {set at compile time, check SHOW}
... would still be an improvement for the *majority* of parameters, which are
not set at compile time.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco