Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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.

But these sales people are selling a postgres based product. It'd be
both much less convincing to demo a different application stack; as
well as not a very productive use of the developer's time.