Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EBB9FBFBD for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:52:29 -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 86935-03 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:52:26 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from locust.cns.vt.edu (locust.cns.vt.edu [198.82.169.14]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E16A9FBECA for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:52:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by locust.cns.vt.edu (Postfix, from userid 986) id 8867D118A45; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:52:25 -0400 From: Ray Stell To: Kevin Hunter Cc: Tom Lane , Carlos Moreno , PostgreSQL Performance Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Message-ID: <20070427185225.GA31782@cns.vt.edu> References: <46310247.2050802@pinpointresearch.com> <463158DD.3060602@mochima.com> <2679.1177642153@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4631FA55.4010406@mochima.com> <14600.1177684600@sss.pgh.pa.us> <341A85AA-38FC-43DA-B9E4-793F5E9222B5@earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <341A85AA-38FC-43DA-B9E4-793F5E9222B5@earlham.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/484 X-Sequence-Number: 24361 On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:40:07PM -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: > out that many run multiple postmasters or have other uses for the > machines in question), but perhaps it could send a message (email?) > along the lines of "Hey, I'm currently doing this many of X > transactions, against this much of Y data, and working under these > constraints. You might get better performance (in this area ... ) if > you altered the the configurations options like so: ..." or storing the values in the db for later trending analysis, witness ora statspack.