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

From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
Date: 2007-04-27 14:30:25
Message-ID: 20070427143023.GA2422@mathom.us
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:27:49AM -0400, Carlos Moreno wrote:
>Notice that the second part of my suggestion covers this --- have
>additional
>switches to initdb so that the user can tell it about estimates on how
>the DB
>will be used: estimated size of the DB, estimated percentage of
>activity that
>will involve writing, estimated percentage of activity that will be
>transactions,
>percentage that will use indexes, percentage of queries that will be
>complex,
>etc. etc.

If the person knows all that, why wouldn't they know to just change the
config parameters?

Mike Stone

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