Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard
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Msg-id 4938798A.2030308@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Ron Mayer wrote:
> 
>> OTOH there tends to be less DBA time available to tune the smaller 
>> demo instances that come&go as sales people upgrade their laptops; so 
>> improved automation would be much appreciated there.
> 
> I have a TODO list for things that might be interesting to add to a V2.0 
> version of this tool.  I just added an item to there for extending the 
> tuning model usefully into working on systems with smaller amounts of 
> RAM. I'm not opposed to the idea, just don't have any background doing 
> that and I'm trying to stay focused on the more common big-machine 
> problems for the first release.

We *have* a configuration for small amounts of RAM; it's our current 
default configuration.

However, I take the point that the "workstation" calculations should 
work down to 128MB of system RAM.  I'll check.

--Josh


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