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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:37:58 -0700
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People:

> I think I did indeed speak too soon, as the criticism is a fair one:
> nowhere in the installation instructions or the "getting started"
> docs does it say that you really ought to do some tuning once you
> have the system installed.  Can I suggest for the time being that
> something along these lines should go in 14.6.3, "Tuning the
> installation":
>=20
> ---snip---
> By default, PostgreSQL is configured to run on minimal hardware.  As
> a result, some tuning of your installation will be necessary before
> using it for anything other than extremely small databases.  At the
> very least, it will probably be necessary to increase your shared
> buffers setting.  See Chapter 16 for details on what tuning options
> are available to you.
> ---snip---

I think we actually need much more than this.  Kaarel on the Advocacy list =
has=20
volunteered to try to extend our "getting started" section to encompass som=
e=20
basic tuning stuff.  Of course, more people would be better.

--=20
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco