> Some pieces already exist, like the pg* commands I don't think those really help? You need to start a server for that and be allowed to connect. If you have

> Some pieces already exist, like the pg* commands I don't think those really help? You need to start a server for that and be allowed to connect. If you have that you can just as well feed a file to psql to do all the setup at once. > The config files themselves could probably use a good redesign as well. Hm. I've dealt with postgresql.conf files for a decade now, so maybe I just don't see the problem with the format itself. I think we should make more parameters auto-tuned, but that's something different to the file format itself. If you're talking about pg_hba.conf: Wholewheartedly agreed. That's the one thing I remember being terminally confused about back when I started using postgres.