Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
Date: 2013-10-10 18:44:51
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSW7XtxJVU=FgkWzgjBfS1uMKoVcPT-hp4oi7J=FbYrmw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> So, the question is: can we reasonably determine, at initdb time, how
>> much RAM the system has?
>
> As long as you are willing to write platform-dependent code, yes.

That's why trying to give the responsibility to a packager is compelling.

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Peter Geoghegan

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