Dan,
> Yes, this is the classic problem. I'm not demanding anyone pick up the
> ball and jump on this today, tomorrow, etc.. I just think it would be
> good for those who *could* make a difference to keep those goals in mind
> when they continue. If you have the right mindset, this problem will
> fix itself over time.
Don't I wish. Autotuning is *hard*. It took Oracle 6 years. It took
Microsoft 3-4 years, and theirs still has major issues last I checked. And
both of those DBs support less OSes than we do. I think it's going to
take more than the *right mindset* and my spare time.
> I appreciate your efforts in this regard. Do you have a formal project
> plan for this? If you can share it with me, I'll take a look and see if
> there is anything I can do to help out.
Nope, just some noodling around on the configurator:
www.pgfoundry.org/projects/configurator
> I am on the verge of starting a Java UI that will query a bunch of the
> pg_* tables and give the user information about wasted table space,
> index usage, table scans, slow-running queries and spoon-feed it in a
> nice attractive interface that can be a real-time system monitor tool.
> This could be a cooperative project or might have some redundancy with
> what you're up to.
I'd be *very* interested in collaborating with you on this. Further, we
could feed DTrace (& systemtap?) into the interface to get data that
PostgreSQL doesn't currently produce.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco