On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Samuel Gendler <sgend...@ideasculptor.com> writes: > > Does it not seem that this insistence on shipping a default config that > > works out of the box on every system incurs a dramatic penalty when it > comes > > to getting a useful postgres config for a production system? > > > I'm sure this argument has probably been done to death on this list (I'm > a > > relatively recent subscriber), > > No kidding. Please review the archives. > > The short answer is that even though modern machines tend to have plenty > of RAM, they don't tend to have correspondingly large default settings > of SHMMAX etc. If we crank up the default shared-memory-usage settings > to the point where PG won't start in a couple of MB, we won't accomplish > a thing in terms of "making it work out of the box"; we'll just put > another roadblock in front of newbies getting to try it at all. > > Yes, I understand that. I was trying to make the point that, in an attempt to make things very easy for novice users, we are actually making them quite a bit more complex for novice users who want to do anything besides start the server. But no need to have the debate again.
--sam
