Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> How do we handle the Python dependency, or is this all to be done in
>> some other language?  I certainly am not ready to take on that job.
>
> I should think it possible to reimplement it in C.  It was considerably
> useful to start by implementing in Python, as that evades various sorts
> of efforts needed in C (e.g. - memory allocation, picking a hash table
> implementation), and allows someone to hack on it without needing to
> run through a recompile every time something is touched.

I think in the context of this problem, reimplementing that from
python to C is the easiest part. Actually figuring out what the tool
should *do* and how it should do it is the hard part.

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