Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEE9633BB4 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:55:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76897-05 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:54:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gw.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA02163557B for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:54:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gw.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:54:57 -0500 Message-Id: <4BC4315A02000025000307C9@gw.wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:54:50 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Satish Burnwal (sburnwal)" , Subject: Re: Getting the initdb parameter values References: <3A8C969225424C4D8E6BEE65ED8552DA0119F14C@XMB-BGL-41C.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <3A8C969225424C4D8E6BEE65ED8552DA0119F14C@XMB-BGL-41C.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.078 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.168, BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/162 X-Sequence-Number: 34256 "Satish Burnwal (sburnwal)" wrote: > I have an existing postgres database and I want to know what are > the values of the parameters that were determined during initdb. > Is there any way to know those values ? > Is there any pg_* table which I look into for such params? There is: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/view-pg-settings.html You could also look in the postgresql.conf file or use the SHOW command. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/runtime-config-file-locations.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-show.html -Kevin