| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard |
| Date: | 2008-12-05 03:29:24 |
| Message-ID: | 1228447764.4794.2.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:51 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> > Just let's please change it both places, rather than letting
> > contrib/pgtune be a backdoor to get around not liking what initdb does.
> > And similarly with the other parameters...
>
> Someone running pgtune has specifically asked for their database to be
> tuned for performance; someone running initdb has not. It's not a
> backdoor,
Right.
> the defaults for a tuned small system and what comes out of
> initdb have completely different priorities.
IMO the priority of initdb is, "Get the damn thing running"
> The linking of the two that
> keeps happening in this thread makes no sense to me, and frankly I
> consider the whole topic an off-topic distraction.
>
Agreed.
Joshua D. Drake
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