> heuristics that initdb could apply. We'd have to let all of these
> degrade nicely, so that even if the user select the machine hog setting,
> if we find we can only do something like the tiny setting that's what
> s/he would get. Also, we might need to have some tolerably portable way
> of finding out about machine resources. And power users will still want
> to tube things more. But it might help to alleviate our undeserved
> reputation for poor performance if we provide some help to start off at
> least in the right ballpark.
I think we should just do what MySQL does and include:
postgresql.conf
postgresql-large.conf
postgresql-huge.conf
Chris