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
