On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com>wrote:
> > On 10/17/2013 08:55 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > >> >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I still think my previous proposal of increasing the defaults for >>> work_mem and maintenance_work_mem by 4X would serve many more >>> people well than it would serve poorly. I haven't heard anyone >>> disagree with that notion. Does anyone disagree? Should we do >>> it? >>> >> >> I think that it makes sense to do that. Those are still reasonable >> defaults for a machine with 2GB of RAM, maybe even with less. >> We're talking about putting this only in a release that will come >> out in 2014. How many machines used for a database server that new >> will have less than that? >> > > A lot. A whole lot, more than what most people have in production with > more than that. You are forgetting a very large segment of the population > who run... VMs. > > Why don't we just have 3 default config files: > > 2GB memory > 4GB memory > 8GB memory > But what would go in each of those files? Once we agree on what would be in them, why not just have a continuous knob that does that same thing? Would your suggestion for the 2GB file have work_mem be at least 4 MB? Cheers, Jeff
