| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgresql.conf |
| Date: | 2001-11-19 21:04:10 |
| Message-ID: | 200111192104.fAJL4An21804@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> What we ought to do, however, is to collect and document empirical methods
> for tuning, such as the above "1/4 of available memory" rule (which does
> not claim to be correct, btw.).
What would be interesting is to have a program that prompted the user,
checked some system values, and modified postgresql.conf accordingly.
The major problem with this idea is that I don't know of a good way to
determine the proper values programmatically, let alone portably.
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