Claudio,
> Not really. I'm convinced, and not only for e_c_s, that
> autoconfiguration is within the realm of possibility.
Hey, if you can do it, my hat's off to you.
> In any case, as eavesdroppers can infer a cryptographic key by timing
> operations or measuring power consumption, I'm pretty sure postgres
> can infer cost metrics and/or time sharing with clever
> instrumentation. The trick lies in making such instrumentation
> uninstrusive.
... and not requiring a great deal of code maintenance for each and
every release of Linux and Windows.
Anyway, we could do something for 9.3 if we just make "available RAM" a
manual setting. Asking the user "how much RAM is available for
Postgres" is not a terribly difficult question.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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