Re: initdb profiles

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:43:17AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>What I would like to see is that initdb would end with saying that the 
>>system is not really tuned and that I should run pg-some-program to 
>>improve that.  pg-some-program would analyze my system, ask me a few 
>>questions, and then output a suggested configuration (or apply it right 
>>away).  Again, the challenge is to write that program.
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>FYI, http://pgfoundry.org/projects/configurator/
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Jim,

it's been referred to several times in this debate.

It might do what Peter wants, but for reasons already explained I don't 
see it as a substitute for getting initdb to generate more realistic 
settings.

cheers

andrew