| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard |
| Date: | 2008-12-04 18:28:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1228415285.24775.42.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:20 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> > I'm not the sort to be too concerned myself that
> > the guy who thinks he's running a DW on a system with 64MB of RAM might
> > get bad settings, but it's a fair criticism to point that out as a problem.
>
> In defense of thinking about very small configurations, I've seen many
> cases where an enterprise-software salesperson's laptop is running a
> demo - either in a small virtual machine in the laptop, or on an
> overloaded windows box. Even though the customer might end up
> running with 64GB, the sales demo's more likely to be 64MB.
Although I get your point, that is a job for sqllite not postgresql.
PostgreSQL is not a end all be all solution and it is definitely not
designed to be "embedded" which is essentially what you are suggesting
with that kind of configuration.
Joshua D. Drake
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