Re: go for a script! / ex: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 05:22, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> In article <1065837333(dot)12875(dot)1(dot)camel(at)jester>,
> Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
>
> >> Would anyone object to a patch that exports the blocksize via a
> >> readonly GUC? Too many tunables are page dependant, which is
> >> infuriating when copying configs from DB to DB. I wish pgsql had some
> >> notion of percentages for values that end with a '%'.
>
> > Rather than showing the block size, how about we change the tunables to
> > be physical sizes rather than block based?
>
> > effective_cache_size = 1.5GB
> > shared_buffers = 25MB
>
> Amen! Being forced to set config values in some obscure units rather
> than bytes is an ugly braindamage which should be easy to fix.

But it's too user-friendly to do it this way!

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