| From: | Alfred Perlstein <alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)freebsd(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot(at)wolfpond(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD |
| Date: | 2014-04-21 16:44:09 |
| Message-ID: | 53554AD9.3040408@freebsd.org |
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On 4/21/14 9:38 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 04/21/2014 12:25 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 1. OS developers are not the target audience for GUCs. If the OS
>>> developers want to test and can't be botherrd with building with a
>>> couple of different parameters then I'm not very impressed.
>>>
>>> 2. We should be trying to get rid of GUCs where possible, and only
>>> add them when we must. The more there are the more we confuse users.
>>> If a packager can pick a default surely they can pick build options
>>> too.
>> Thank you for the lecture Andrew! Really pleasant way to treat a
>> user and a fan of the system. :)
>>
>>
>
> I confess to being mightily confused.
Sure, to clarify:
Andrew, you just told someone who in a db stack sits both below (as a
pgsql user 15 years) and above (as a FreeBSD kernel dev 15 years) your
software what they "really need".
-Alfred
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