Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

On May 4, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Sebastian,
>> Before inventing a hyper tool, we might consider to provide 3-5
>> example
>> szenarios for common hardware configurations. This consumes less time
>> and be discussed and defined in a couple of days. This is of
>> course not
>> the correct option for a brandnew 20 spindle Sata 10.000 Raid 10
>> system
>> but these are probably not the target for default configurations.
>
> That's been suggested a number of times, but some GUCs are really
> tied to the
> *exact* amount of RAM you have available.  So I've never seen how
> "example
> configurations" could help.

Uh... what GUCs are that exacting on the amount of memory? For a
decent, base-line configuration, that is.
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