On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 02:32 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > Generally I agree, however, how about a first switch, for beginner / > > intermediate / advanced. > > You're describing a perfectly reasonable approach for a second generation > tool in this area. I think it would be very helpful for the user > community to get a first generation one that works fairly well before > getting distracted at all by things like this. The people capable of > filling out the intermediate/advanced settings can probably just do a bit > of reading and figure out most of what they should be doing themselves. Just as an aside; how come the installation/setup "Tutorial" section - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/tutorial-start.html - doesn't mention setting some rough reasonable defaults in postgresql.conf or even a reference to the parameter documentation section. It seems like such a reference should exist between - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/tutorial-arch.html - and - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/tutorial-accessdb.html At least something along those lines should be said at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/install-post.html Personally, as DBA for more than a decade, I've got 0 sympathy for people who setup a database but can't be bothered to read the documentation. But in the case of PostgreSQL the documentation could do a better job of driving users to even the existence [and importance of] postgresql.conf and routine maintenance techniques. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/maintenance.html Seems to me that even a remake of something like - http://www.iiug.org/~waiug/old/forum2000/SQLTunning/sld001.htm - focused on PostgreSQL would be novel and very interesting. Just my two cents. PostgreSQL is awesome, BTW.
