Douglas J Hunley <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 11:25:11 Tom Lane wrote: >> Another thing that seems strange is that the 8.2 config file does not >> seem to have been processed by initdb --- or did you explicitly comment >> out the settings it made? > I don't understand this comment. You are saying 'initdb' will make changes to > the file? The file I sent is the working copy from the machine in question. Yeah --- in a normal installation, initdb will provide un-commented entries for these postgresql.conf parameters: max_connections shared_buffers max_fsm_pages datestyle lc_messages lc_monetary lc_numeric lc_time (The first three are set dependent on SHMMAX probing, the others dependent on locale.) Your conf file doesn't seem to have been through that autoconfiguration step, which suggests someone poking at things they should have left alone. regards, tom lane
