Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1D82E0079 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:15:27 -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 94161-03-5 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:14:54 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from alexis.jtlnet.com (alexis.jtlnet.com [69.36.9.81]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B762E00A3 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:07:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.103] (cpe-075-177-177-228.nc.res.rr.com [::ffff:75.177.177.228]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by alexis.jtlnet.com with esmtp; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:06:44 -0400 id 00097B45.48472E14.00005169 Message-ID: <48472E47.7030701@dunslane.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:07:35 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20071019 Fedora/1.0.9-3.fc6 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Greg Smith , Andreas Pflug , "Decibel!" , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Josh Berkus Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS References: <48409D1E.3070208@agliodbs.com> <200806010032.53337.peter_e@gmx.net> <17932.1212415926@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20080604131810.GH65238@decibel.org> <4846A483.8000001@pse-consulting.de> <29525.1212613052@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <29525.1212613052@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/194 X-Sequence-Number: 119307 Tom Lane wrote: > > * Can we build a "configuration wizard" to tell newbies what settings > they need to tweak? > > > That would trump all the other suggestions conclusively. Anyone good at expert systems? cheers andrew