Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
Date: 2013-10-10 18:45:21
Message-ID: 5256F5C1.5020807@agliodbs.com
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On 10/10/2013 11:41 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> tunedb --available-memory=32GB
>
> ...and it will print out a set of proposed configuration settings. If
> we want a mode that rewrites the configuration file, we could have:
>
> tunedb --available-memory=32GB --rewrite-config-file=$PATH
>
> ...but that might be overkill, at least for version 1.

Given that we are talking currently about ALTER SYSTEM SET *and*
configuration directories, we should not be rewriting any existing
config file. We should be adding an auto-generated one, or using ALTER
SYSTEM SET.

In fact, why don't we just do this though ALTER SYSTEM SET? add a
plpgsql function called pg_tune().

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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