From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, 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 18:49:17 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEzLf3zzJc6-DsQqs=LdA62QCc0+XQCsRhTZNP6W47AxfA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> 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().
>
> That's another way to do it, for sure. It does require the ability to
> log in to the database. I imagine that could be less convenient in
> some scripting environments.
I think that would also make it much harder to automate for packagers.
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Magnus Hagander
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