On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:36:52AM -0700, Mark Lewis wrote:
Maybe he's looking for a switch for initdb that would make it interactive and quiz you about your expected usage-- sort of a magic auto-configurator wizard doohicky? I could see that sort of thing being nice for the casual user or newbie who otherwise would have a horribly mis-tuned database. They could instead have only a marginally mis-tuned database :)
However you implement it, anyone who can answer all of those questions is probably capable of reading and understanding the performance section in the manual. It's probably more practical to have a seperate script that looks at the running system (ram, disks, pg config, db size, indices, stats, etc.) and makes suggestions--if someone wants to write such a thing.
Mike Stone
