Steve Atkins wrote:
These are technically literate customers working for large ISPs, with significant local sysadmin and DBA support, so the concept is not beyond them. Yet when I ssh in to one of their servers only about 1 in 3 is running with anything other than the default postgresql.conf. Just a data point. If it works, most people won't think to fix it.
That's why I think we need a range of measures, one of which would be to use better defaults in initdb. We are using the same numbers that were there at least 2 releases ago, IIRC. But the world has changed some in that time.
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