This seems like a nice idea -
It might even be worth targeting a couple pf specific "ranges" - e.g :
machines with 1G RAM and 4G RAM ( "medium" are "large" come to mind, I
know it's a bit like that "other" database product we know of.... but
that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad!)
Mark
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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> I'm strongly in favour of distribution postresql.conf-large as well,
> with much higher settings for SCSI, 1GM RAM machines, say. This is
> exactly as MySQL does it and I think it's a great idea.
>
> At least then an admin will notice the file there and say to
> themselves "I wonder what I need to do to configure for a big server,
> i guess that implies that this default postgresql.conf won't perform
> very well"...
>
> Chris
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