Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

Jonah,

Um, shared_buffers is one of the most important initial parameters to
> set and it most certainly cannot be set after startup.

Not after startup, correct. But after installation. It is possible to change
PostgreSQL.conf (not ini, to much windows on my side, sorry) and restart
postmaster.

Because a lot of good assumptions can be made on the initial install.
> Likewise, some of the most important parameters cannot be tuned after
> startup.

Yes. These assumptions can be made - but then they are assumptions. When the
database is filled and working, there are measurable facts. And yes, that
needs a restart of postmaster, that does not work on 24/7. But there are
many databases which can be restartet for tuning in regular maintainance
sessions.

> :) which gives nice graphics and "optimized", like those Windows
> Optimizers.
> > :) I am sure, some DBAs in BIGCOMPs would be thrilled :)
>
> >I'd suggest that you not make snide remarks about someone else's
> >design when your own analysis is somewhat flawed.

Sorry, Jonah, if my words sounded "snide". I had feedback from some DBAs in
BIGCOMPs, who said very positive things about the beauty of pgadmin. I saw
some DBAs quite happy about the graphical displays of TOAD. I worked for a
MVS Hoster who paid BIG SUMS to Candle Software for a Software called
Omegamon, which made it possible to have charts about performance figures.
So I deducted that people would even be willing to pay money for a GUI which
presents the opimizing process.

That idea of "tune PostgreSQL database after installation" also came from
the various request on pgsql-performance. Some ask before they install; but
there are also MANY questions with "our PostgreSQL database was running fast
untill xxxx", with xxxx usually being a table grown bigger then n records.

And I really did not want to discredit the idea of properly configuring from
the start. Just wanted to open an other option to do that tuning.

Harald
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