Ron,
> I wonder if the fastest way to generate the configurator
> would be to simply ask everyone to post their tuned
> postgresql.conf files along with a brief description of
> the use case for that file. The we could group the
> use-cases into various classes; and average the values
> of the submitted files. Then the configurator's one
> question "choose which use case most closely matches
> yours from this list".
This has been proposed a number of times, but is still infeasable for the
simple reason that a lot of settings are dependant on how much RAM you have
on the machine. "Sample configs" would just result in people trying to set
their shared_buffers to 150% of system RAM if they have a lightweight system,
or in having 500 different sample configurations, which would produce even
*more* user confusion.
A generator makes more sense.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco