What I would like to see is that initdb would end with saying that the system is not really tuned and that I should run pg-some-program to improve that. pg-some-program would analyze my system, ask me a few questions, and then output a suggested configuration (or apply it right away). Again, the challenge is to write that program.
Perhaps at the end of initdb it would say would you like to run the PostgreSQL configuration program?
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