Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

[Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:27:49AM -0400, Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Notice that the second part of my suggestion covers this --- have 
> additional
> switches to initdb so that the user can tell it about estimates on how 
> the DB
> will be used:  estimated size of the DB, estimated percentage of 
> activity that
> will involve writing, estimated percentage of activity that will be 
> transactions,
> percentage that will use indexes, percentage of queries that will be 
> complex,
> etc. etc.

If the person knows all that, why wouldn't they know to just change the 
config parameters?

Mike Stone