Oliver,
> I think instead of thinking about where to put the
> information about tuning, someone should provide a
> "pgsql-autotune". Maybe even a shell script would do the
> trick.
Well, you see, there's the issue. "I think someone." Lots of people have
spoken in favor of an "auto-conf" script; nobody so far has stepped forward
to get it done for 7.4, and I doubt we have time now.
I'll probably create a Perl script in a month or so, but not before that ....
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco