Re: Improving postgresql.conf

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Improving postgresql.conf
Date: 2004-06-16 08:58:51
Message-ID: 40D00BCB.2090009@coretech.co.nz
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This seems like a nice idea -

It might even be worth targeting a couple pf specific "ranges" - e.g :
machines with 1G RAM and 4G RAM ( "medium" are "large" come to mind, I
know it's a bit like that "other" database product we know of.... but
that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad!)

Mark

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>
>
> I'm strongly in favour of distribution postresql.conf-large as well,
> with much higher settings for SCSI, 1GM RAM machines, say. This is
> exactly as MySQL does it and I think it's a great idea.
>
> At least then an admin will notice the file there and say to
> themselves "I wonder what I need to do to configure for a big server,
> i guess that implies that this default postgresql.conf won't perform
> very well"...
>
> Chris
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