Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: "Campbell, Lance" <lance@uiuc.edu>
cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Volunteer to build a configuration tool
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one thing to point out to people about this idea is that nothing says that 
this page needs to be served via a webserver. If all the calculations are 
done in javascript this could be a local file that you open with a 
browser.

do any of the text-mode browsers implement javascript? if so then you have 
an answer even for the deeply buried isolated headless servers.

David Lang

  On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, 
Campbell, Lance wrote:

> 
> I am a Java Software architect, DBA, and project manager for the
> University of Illinois, Department of Web Services.  We use PostgreSQL
> to serve about 2 million pages of dynamic content a month; everything
> from calendars, surveys, forms, discussion boards, RSS feeds, etc.  I am
> really impressed with this tool.
>
>
>
> The only major problem area I have found where PostgreSQL is really
> lacking is in "what should my initial configuration settings be?"  I
> realize that there are many elements that can impact a DBA's specific
> database settings but it would be nice to have a "configuration tool"
> that would get someone up and running better in the beginning.
>
>
>
> This is my idea:
>
>
>
> A JavaScript HTML page that would have some basic questions at the top:
>
> 1) How much memory do you have?
>
> 2) How many connections will be made to the database?
>
> 3) What operating system do you use?
>
> 4) Etc...