extra_float_digits is the setting whose job changed out from under it. For most of PostgreSQL’s history it forced a choice between floating-point output that wa
Write a second PID file to a custom location—useful when your cluster manager expects PostgreSQL's PID at a specific path like `/run/postgresql/postgresql.pid`.
Windows PostgreSQL logs messages to the Event Log under a name you choose with `event_source`—but Windows won't understand that name until you register it with…
extra_float_digits is the setting whose job changed out from under it. For most of PostgreSQL’s history it forced a choice between floating-point output that wa
Write a second PID file to a custom location—useful when your cluster manager expects PostgreSQL's PID at a specific path like `/run/postgresql/postgresql.pid`.
PostgreSQL 18 lets you store extensions anywhere with `extension_control_path`, ending the requirement to install them into the system directory.
PostgreSQL's `exit_on_error` GUC promotes every error to a session-terminating event—but this fail-fast illusion masks a destructive truth.
Event triggers fire on DDL and login events, not rows—and a buggy one can lock out every user, even superusers.
Windows PostgreSQL logs messages to the Event Log under a name you choose with `event_source`—but Windows won't understand that name until you register it with…
A twenty-year-old warning that stays silent on modern PostgreSQL—until it spots a real problem hiding in your connection settings.
TID scans only happen when you explicitly ask for them via `ctid`, making `enable_tidscan` a knob you'll almost certainly never touch.
Disable `enable_sort` to fix a slow sort? Wrong target. Slow sorts need more `work_mem` or better indexes—not this GUC.