Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F852E0038 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:12:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46494-09 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:12:15 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0022E0037 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:12:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m54KC5nC028947; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:12:05 -0400 (EDT) To: "David E. Wheeler" cc: Greg Smith , Josh Berkus , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS In-reply-to: References: <48409D1E.3070208@agliodbs.com> <484418D9.5040608@sun.com> <200806021106.05833.josh@agliodbs.com> <0B854D92-C5C2-4138-A0FE-F81892A33869@sun.com> <72DA5875-8E89-4A6F-8D0B-7F9A869D79B9@kineticode.com> <27574.1212603758@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "David E. Wheeler" message dated "Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:55:53 -0700" Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:12:05 -0400 Message-ID: <28946.1212610325@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/171 X-Sequence-Number: 119284 "David E. Wheeler" writes: > I'm not much into MySQL, but in the work I've done with it, I've had > to create /etc/my.cnf myself. There *is* no configuration file > configuring MySQL until that file is created, is there? So there is no > configuration to learn at first. Postgres will start happily with an empty configuration file, too. What's your point? regards, tom lane