Configuration parameters affect categories of server behaviors, such as resource consumption, query tuning, and authentication. The following topics describe Greenplum configuration parameter categories.

• Connection and Authentication Parameters
• System Resource Consumption Parameters
• Pivotal Query Optimizer Parameters
• Query Tuning Parameters
• Error Reporting and Logging Parameters
• System Monitoring Parameters
• Runtime Statistics Collection Parameters
• Automatic Statistics Collection Parameters
• Client Connection Default Parameters
• Lock Management Parameters
• Workload Management Parameters
• External Table Parameters
• Database Table Parameters
• Database and Tablespace/Filespace Parameters
• Past PostgreSQL Version Compatibility Parameters
• Greenplum Array Configuration Parameters
• Greenplum Mirroring Parameters for Master and Segments
• Greenplum Database Extension Parameters