Josh Berkus wrote:
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.
I'm not convinced about this objection - having samples gives a bit of a heads up on *what* knobs you should at least look at changing.
Also it might be helpful on the -general or -perf lists to be able to say "try config 3 (or whatever we call 'em) and see what changes..."
I've certainly found the sample config files supplied with that database whose name begins with 'M' a useful *start* when I want something better than default...
Cheers Mark
