Greg Smith wrote:
I'm not the sort to be too concerned myself that the guy who thinks he's running a DW on a system with 64MB of RAM might get bad settings, but it's a fair criticism to point that out as a problem.
In defense of thinking about very small configurations, I've seen many cases where an enterprise-software salesperson's laptop is running a demo - either in a small virtual machine in the laptop, or on an overloaded windows box. Even though the customer might end up running with 64GB, the sales demo's more likely to be 64MB. In some ways, I'd be more interested in seeing automation of those than the large production systems. Large production systems are likely to have an administrator who's paid to read the documentation and learn how to configure the database. OTOH there tends to be less DBA time available to tune the smaller demo instances that come&go as sales people upgrade their laptops; so improved automation would be much appreciated there. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers