Re: initdb profiles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: initdb profiles
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Msg-id 432064C1.6070008@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: initdb profiles  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
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Steve Atkins wrote:

>These are technically literate customers working for large ISPs, with
>significant local sysadmin and DBA support, so the concept is not beyond them.
>
>Yet when I ssh in to one of their servers only about 1 in 3 is running
>with anything other than the default postgresql.conf.
>
>Just a data point. If it works, most people won't think to fix it.
>
>
>  
>

That's why I think we need a range of measures, one of which would be to 
use better defaults in initdb. We are using the same numbers that were 
there at least 2 releases ago, IIRC. But the world has changed some in 
that time.

cheers

andrew



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