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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@uiuc.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Configuration Tool for Dummies
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:10:49 +0200
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Campbell, Lance wrote:
> Now I am at the difficult part, what parameters to calculate and how to
> calculate them.  Everything below has to do with PostgreSQL version 8.2:
> 
>  
> 
> The parameters I would think we should calculate are:
> 
> max_connections
> 
> shared_buffers
> 
> work_mem
> 
> maintenance_work_mem
> 
> effective_cache_size
> 
> random_page_cost
> 
>  
> 
> Any other variables?  I am open to suggestions.


we also should scale max_fsm_pages according to the database size and
workload answers - I also note that the configuration file it generates
seems to look like on for PostgreSQL 7.x or something - I think we
should just include the specific parameters to change.


Stefan



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