> What we ought to do, however, is to collect and document empirical methods
> for tuning, such as the above "1/4 of available memory" rule (which does
> not claim to be correct, btw.).
What would be interesting is to have a program that prompted the user,
checked some system values, and modified postgresql.conf accordingly.
The major problem with this idea is that I don't know of a good way to
determine the proper values programmatically, let alone portably.
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