On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:51 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> > Just let's please change it both places, rather than letting
> > contrib/pgtune be a backdoor to get around not liking what initdb does.
> > And similarly with the other parameters...
>
> Someone running pgtune has specifically asked for their database to be
> tuned for performance; someone running initdb has not. It's not a
> backdoor,
Right.
> the defaults for a tuned small system and what comes out of
> initdb have completely different priorities.
IMO the priority of initdb is, "Get the damn thing running"
> The linking of the two that
> keeps happening in this thread makes no sense to me, and frankly I
> consider the whole topic an off-topic distraction.
>
Agreed.
Joshua D. Drake
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