On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
I find it extremely inconsistent that you want to select "middle-of-the-road"
defaults for some values and ask users detailed questions for other values.
Which are we trying to do, here?
I'd like to see people have a really simple set of questions to get
Greg,
> Your max_connections concern is one fact that haunts the idea of just
> giving out some sample configs for people. Lance's tool asks outright the
> expectation for max_connections which I think is the right thing to do.
...
> I think people are stuck with actually learning a bit about wor
Steven Flatt escribió:
> Most of our large (partitioned) tables are insert-only (truncated
> eventually) so will not be touched by autovacuum until wraparound prevention
> kicks in. However the tables are partitioned by timestamp so tables will
> cross the 1.9 billion marker at different times (s
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
The problem is that there are no "safe, middle-of-the-road" values for some
things, particularly max_connections and work_mem.
Your max_connections concern is one fact that haunts the idea of just
giving out some sample configs for people. Lance's tool
On 6/25/07, Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you set that to 2B, that means you're 2^31-"2 billion"-100
transactions away from a shutdown when autovac finally gets around to
trying to run a wraparound vacuum on a table. If you have any number
of large tables, that could be a big probl
Greg,
> We've hashed through this area before, but for Lance's benefit I'll
> reiterate my dissenting position on this subject. If you're building a
> "tool for dummies", my opinion is that you shouldn't ask any of this
> information. I think there's an enormous benefit to providing something
>
"Jim Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 m
