On 9/25/20 7:40 AM, tutiluren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't mean this to sound rude, but it's like talking to a wall... What > I mean is that there are obviously technical means for software to know > whether they are exhausting the system they are running on or not, and > expecting people to understand all these intricate internal parameters > is just... bizarre. There ought to be some kind of "abstract" setting > for those of us who aren't able to (or even *wish* to) comprehend all > the PG internals, and just want an efficient database using (roughly) as > much of our machine as we want. I found pgtune [1] to be a very good start for tuning PG. There's also a tool available online [2]. [1] https://github.com/gregs1104/pgtune [2] https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/