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Re:PostgreSQL Basics by Example by kibibu on Sunday August 18, 2013 @09:35PM (#6235114)
This annoys me so much about PostgreSQL. Why not have useful defaults?!
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Re:PostgreSQL Basics by Example by ilikepi on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:56AM (#6235691)
The defaults are useful in that they reflect a configuration that is appropriate to get the system running on a large variety of hardware. It's not really the responsibility of the Pg developers to guess at the "best" settings for any specific environment, because environments and configurations vary greatly.
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Re:PostgreSQL Basics by Example by jedberg on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:20AM (#6235900)
I agree to a point, but it would be nice if there were some provided default configs for various classes of machines.

Especially defaults for the most popular EC2 instance types.

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Re:PostgreSQL Basics by Example by VLM on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:39AM (#6237453)
Its two dimensional because of "various classes of applications"
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