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> When someone asks about [database] tuning, I always say “it depends”.

Indeed. On your schema. On your usage. On your app. On your users.

If it didn’t depend they’d just make the “tuned” value the default.

Exactly. The parameters you can configure are there due to a lack of automating those since what you want to optimize for might be different than an automaton would.

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