Sebastian,
> Before inventing a hyper tool, we might consider to provide 3-5 example
> szenarios for common hardware configurations. This consumes less time
> and be discussed and defined in a couple of days. This is of course not
> the correct option for a brandnew 20 spindle Sata 10.000 Raid 10 system
> but these are probably not the target for default configurations.
That's been suggested a number of times, but some GUCs are really tied to the
*exact* amount of RAM you have available. So I've never seen how "example
configurations" could help.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco