Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:08, Justin Clift wrote:
> b) Said benchmarking person knows very little about PostgreSQL, so they 
> install the RPM's, packages, or whatever, and "it works".  Then they run 
> whatever benchmark they've downloaded, or designed, or whatever
> 

Out of curiosity, how feasible is it for the rpm/package/deb/exe
maintainers to modify their supplied postgresql.conf settings when
building said distribution?  AFAIK the minimum default SHHMAX setting on
Red Hat 8.0 is 32MB, seems like bumping shared buffers to work with that
amount would be acceptable inside the 8.0 rpm's.

Robert Treat