Re: PostgreSQL calibration - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From matt
Subject Re: PostgreSQL calibration
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Msg-id 1055957804.3900.52.camel@gibraltar.mattclark.net
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL calibration  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL calibration  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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Are there really any performance settings of much interest beyond the
shared and non-shared memory settings?  Beyond those the interactions
get so complex that automation is probably impossible anyway, and
certain options like fsync = false should never be 'recommended'.

On the other hand, a way of empirically deriving some 'correct'
optimizer parameters for a given machine would be very nice :-)


Matt


On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:07, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Sure, it would be great if we could do it.
>
> If the program actually derives reliable numbers, it would be great.
> It could easily do more harm than good if it gives bogus results.
> I think it will be very hard to get reliable rather than bogus results
> :-( ... but feel free to try.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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