Re: Volunteer to build a configuration tool

"Jim Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> writes:

> The real issue is that the "stock" postgresql.conf is just horrible. It was
> originally tuned for something like a 486, but even the recent  changes have
> only brought it up to the "pentium era" (case in point:  24MB of shared buffers
> equates to a machine with 128MB of memory,  give or take). 

I think it's more that the stock configure has to assume it's not a dedicated
box. Picture someone installing Postgres on their debian box because it's
required for Gnucash. Even having 24M suddenly disappear from the box is quite
a bit.

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  Gregory Stark
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