Re: go for a script! / ex: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
Cc: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: go for a script! / ex: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
Date: 2003-10-11 01:49:05
Message-ID: 200310110149.h9B1n5905115@candle.pha.pa.us
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Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > NB> So far:
> >
> > NB> shared_buffers = 1/16th of total memory
> > NB> effective_cache_size = 80% of the supposed kernel cache.
> >
> > Please take into account the blocksize compiled into PG, too...
>
> Would anyone object to a patch that exports the blocksize via a
> readonly GUC? Too many tunables are page dependant, which is
> infuriating when copying configs from DB to DB. I wish pgsql had some
> notion of percentages for values that end with a '%'. -sc

Makes sense to me --- we already have some read-only GUC variables.

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