On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 01:16, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> >Assuming it's giving out correct information, there seems to be a lot of
> >evidence for dropping the default random_page_cost to 1...
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
> Some time ago Joe Conway suggest a tool based on a genetic algorithm
> which tries to find the best parameter settings.
> As input the user could use a set of SQL statements. The algorithm will
> try to find those settings which lead to the lowest execution time based
> on the set of SQL.
>
> What about something like that?
> This way people could tune the database theirselves.
>
I actually had starting coding a tool like this, but have become
distracted with other things. I plan on continuing with it maybe next
week. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know...
--brett
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Brett Schwarz
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