Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Guillaume Smet wrote:

> - it would be really nice to make it work with Python 2.4 as RHEL 5 is
> a Python 2.4 thing and it is a very widespread platform out there,

The 2.5 stuff is only required in order to detect memory on Windows. My
primary box is RHEL5 and runs 2.4, it works fine there.

> - considering the audience of this tool, I think you should explain in
> the usage text which type of workload implies each database type (DW,
> OLTP, Web, Mixed, Desktop).

Once I'm done with the docs I'll refer over to those, it's too much to put
into the usage without cluttering it.

> - it would be nice to be able to define the architecture (32-64 bits)
> from the command line (especially considering I won't be able to run
> it on our target boxes which are all RHEL 5 :))

I'm starting to lean toward making everything that gets detected as also
being possible to override, for these case. I want to make this just work
in as many cases as possible, but the situation where someone is
configuring/testing on a system other than the server is pretty common.
Now that I think about it I often setup configs on my 32-bit laptop and
them move them over onto 64-bit servers.

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