From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Overhauling GUCS |
Date: | 2008-06-06 12:35:00 |
Message-ID: | 200806061435.01196.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> * Can we present the config options in a more helpful way (this is 99%
> a documentation problem, not a code problem)?
ack
> * Can we build a "configuration wizard" to tell newbies what settings
> they need to tweak?
Some questions to clarify this:
- What settings do "newbies" (or anyone else) typically need to change?
Please post a list.
- What values would you set those settings to? Please provide a description
for arriving at a value, which can later be transformed into code. Note that
in some cases, not even the documentation provides more than handwaving help.
- If we know better values, why don't we set them by default?
Another orthogonal stumbling block on the way to making all of this automatic
is that the surely criticial shared_buffers setting will in any useful
configuration require messing around with kernel settings that no PostgreSQL
tool can really help with.
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