Tom Lane wrote: > You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that > it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. I've forwarded this thread to Debian as a bug report. Their answer is they will discuss this setting again when 8.2 comes out. The full answer is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342369 For the Debian bug track system, the full discussion on the postgresql mailing list starts here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-12/msg00367.php Thanks everyone for clearing this up. Sincerely, -- Richard van den Berg, CISSP ------------------------------------------- Trust Factory B.V. | www.dna-portal.net Bazarstraat 44a | www.trust-factory.com 2518AK The Hague | Phone: +31 70 3620684 The Netherlands | Fax : +31 70 3603009 -------------------------------------------