Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327879FC0B7 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:59:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 66583-01-2 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:59:22 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CB19FB664 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:59:29 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [64.81.245.111] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.1.27]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 12015619 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:03:37 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:59:49 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20070427143023.GA2422@mathom.us> <46323744.5020703@drivefaster.net> In-Reply-To: <46323744.5020703@drivefaster.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704271059.50265.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/481 X-Sequence-Number: 24358 Dan, > Exactly.. =A0What I think would be much more productive is to use the > great amount of information that PG tracks internally and auto-tune the > parameters based on it. =A0For instance: *Everyone* wants this. The problem is that it's very hard code to write=20 given the number of variables. I'm working on it but progress is slow,=20 due to my travel schedule. =2D-=20 =2D-Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco