On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 23:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org A WAG, but perhaps the new conf file was overwritten after installation with the one from the 'old' installation '..because that's the configuration that we've already tweaked and was working...'
