Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284B22E005D for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:40:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41872-02-3 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:39:43 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (unknown [209.128.84.227]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140842E0052 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:37:21 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.2.3]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 16945201; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:37:20 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:37:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Robert Treat , Peter Eisentraut , Tom Lane , Greg Smith , Andreas Pflug , Decibel! References: <48409D1E.3070208@agliodbs.com> <200806061435.01196.peter_e@gmx.net> <200806061624.29105.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <200806061624.29105.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806100937.38124.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/469 X-Sequence-Number: 119582 Robert, > shared_buffers > effective_cache_size > default_stats_target > work_mem > maintainance_work_mem > listen_address > max_connections > the fsm parameters > checkpoint_segements > random_page_cost My list is very similar, execept that I drop random_page_cost and add synchronous_commit, autovaccum (on or off) and offer 4 "packages" of log settings. So I think that we can get consensus on what are the "newbie" parameters pretty easily. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco