Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard
Date: 2008-12-05 00:44:58
Message-ID: 4938798A.2030308@agliodbs.com
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Ron Mayer wrote:
>
>> OTOH there tends to be less DBA time available to tune the smaller
>> demo instances that come&go as sales people upgrade their laptops; so
>> improved automation would be much appreciated there.
>
> I have a TODO list for things that might be interesting to add to a V2.0
> version of this tool. I just added an item to there for extending the
> tuning model usefully into working on systems with smaller amounts of
> RAM. I'm not opposed to the idea, just don't have any background doing
> that and I'm trying to stay focused on the more common big-machine
> problems for the first release.

We *have* a configuration for small amounts of RAM; it's our current
default configuration.

However, I take the point that the "workstation" calculations should
work down to 128MB of system RAM. I'll check.

--Josh

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