Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7185D9FB6B9 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 83784-03-4 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:08 -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 EB14C9FB6E9 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:07 -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 12075592; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:15:15 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 10:11:42 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Sebastian Hennebrueder References: <463B61ED.20409@laliluna.de> In-Reply-To: <463B61ED.20409@laliluna.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705041011.42313.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/51 X-Sequence-Number: 24441 Sebastian, > Before inventing a hyper tool, we might consider to provide 3-5 example > szenarios for common hardware configurations. This consumes less time > and be discussed and defined in a couple of days. This is of course not > the correct option for a brandnew 20 spindle Sata 10.000 Raid 10 system > but these are probably not the target for default configurations. That's been suggested a number of times, but some GUCs are really tied to the *exact* amount of RAM you have available. So I've never seen how "example configurations" could help. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco