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From: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
To: Jim Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Volunteer to build a configuration tool
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:01:59 +0100
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"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 machine with 128MB of memory,  give or take). 

I think it's more that the stock configure has to assume it's not a dedicated
box. Picture someone installing Postgres on their debian box because it's
required for Gnucash. Even having 24M suddenly disappear from the box is quite
a bit.

-- 
  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com

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