Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard
Date: 2008-12-04 20:54:41
Message-ID: 1228424081.24775.61.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:05 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Fair enough, then make sure you are demoing on a platform that can
> > handle PostgreSQL :)
>
> There are a lot of good reasons for people to be running an instance
> of PostgreSQL on a small machine, running it on a machine with other
> software, or running many clusters of PostgreSQL on a single machine.
> It may not be possible for this tool to generate useful values for all
> of these situations, but it seems to me that should be viewed as a
> limitation of the tool, rather than some moral failing on the part of
> the people with those needs. Let's cover what we can, document the
> limitations, and avoid any user-hostile tones....

I didn't say don't run on a small machine :) I said make sure you run on
one that is up for the job. There is a difference.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> -Kevin
>
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