Re: initdb profiles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: initdb profiles
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Msg-id 431F99F3.9070204@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to initdb profiles  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: initdb profiles
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> heuristics that initdb could apply. We'd have to let all of these 
> degrade nicely, so that even if the user select the machine hog setting, 
> if we find we can only do something like the tiny setting that's what 
> s/he would get. Also, we might need to have some tolerably portable way 
> of finding out about machine resources. And power users will still want 
> to tube things more. But it might help to alleviate our undeserved 
> reputation for poor performance if we provide some help to start off at 
> least in the right ballpark.

I think we should just do what MySQL does and include:

postgresql.conf
postgresql-large.conf
postgresql-huge.conf

Chris



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