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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
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Am Monday, 18. August 2008 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> Right now, if you want to survey
> your databases, tables, approx disk space, query activity, etc., you can
> do that all through port 5432.  You can't manage most of your server
> settings that way, and definitely can't manage the *persistent* settings.  
> When you're trying to manage 1000 PostgreSQL servers, this is not a minor
> issue.

Some of that effort could go into making less settings persistent.