Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C429FC114 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68647-04 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:38 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AE79FB912 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3REaelN014601; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:36:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Carlos Moreno cc: PostgreSQL Performance Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning In-reply-to: <4631FA55.4010406@mochima.com> References: <46310247.2050802@pinpointresearch.com> <463158DD.3060602@mochima.com> <2679.1177642153@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4631FA55.4010406@mochima.com> Comments: In-reply-to Carlos Moreno message dated "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:27:49 -0400" Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:36:40 -0400 Message-ID: <14600.1177684600@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/467 X-Sequence-Number: 24344 Carlos Moreno writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> But >> the fundamental problem remains that we don't know that much about >> how the installation will be used. > Notice that the second part of my suggestion covers this --- have > additional switches to initdb That's been proposed and rejected before, too; the main problem being that initdb is frequently a layer or two down from the user (eg, executed by initscripts that can't pass extra arguments through, even assuming they're being invoked by hand in the first place). regards, tom lane