Re: Overhauling GUCS

Added to TODO:

o Add external tool to auto-tune some postgresql.conf parameters

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00000.php

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> * Can we build a "configuration wizard" to tell newbies what settings
> >> they need to tweak?
>
> > That would trump all the other suggestions conclusively. Anyone good at
> > expert systems?
>
> How far could we get with the answers to just three questions:
>
> * How many concurrent queries do you expect to have?
>
> * How much RAM space are you willing to let Postgres use?
>
> * How much "overhead" disk space are you willing to let Postgres use?
>
> concurrent queries drives max_connections, obviously, and RAM space
> would drive shared_buffers and effective_cache_size, and both of them
> would be needed to size work_mem. The third one is a bit weird but
> I don't see any other good way to set the checkpoint parameters.
>
> If those aren't enough questions, what else must we ask? Or maybe they
> aren't the right questions at all --- maybe we should ask "is this a
> dedicated machine or not" and try to extrapolate everything else from
> what we (hopefully) can find out about the hardware.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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