Re: Postgres performance comments from a MySQL user

How about adding the mesage about tuning to the:

1/ 'don't kill the postmaster message at the bottom of emails'
2/ The install messages.
3/ The build messages.
4/ The login screen for the superuser of the databse?

Justin Clift wrote:
>
> Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> > Justin Clift wrote:
> >
> >> The _very first_ thing to do with any PostgreSQL installation is bump
> >> up the memory settings (at least "sort_mem" and "shared_buffers") in
> >> the postgresql.conf and restart it.
> >>
> >> Tell him to test it with decent settings (try about 4000 for each as
> >> an initial start),
>  >
> > Perhaps that should be in the message that 'make install' echoes and in
> > comments in the conf file itself?
> >
>
> Probably it's a good idea to have some mention of this, as even though we should alter the source to higher defaults
forour next release, there are potentially 
> people that would read a message like this and go "wow, didn't know that", then tune their existing installations as
well.
>
> With Solaris, 4000 for those memory settings is a good place to start and it's generally fine to just leave them at
thatunless there's a definite reason for 
> performance tuning.  No idea with other OS's.
>
> Anyone feel like submitting a patch to alter the default settings to a higher mark?  Don't think it's been done yet,
andit'd be a shame to forget it before 
> feature freeze time of the next release.
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
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