On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:51 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote:
> 
> > Just let's please change it both places, rather than letting 
> > contrib/pgtune be a backdoor to get around not liking what initdb does. 
> > And similarly with the other parameters...
> 
> Someone running pgtune has specifically asked for their database to be 
> tuned for performance; someone running initdb has not.  It's not a 
> backdoor,

Right.

>  the defaults for a tuned small system and what comes out of 
> initdb have completely different priorities.

IMO the priority of initdb is, "Get the damn thing running"

>   The linking of the two that 
> keeps happening in this thread makes no sense to me, and frankly I 
> consider the whole topic an off-topic distraction.
> 

Agreed.


Joshua D. Drake

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