Re: Can I have a look at your TuningWizard generated config file?

[Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Selena Deckelmann wrote:

> What exactly is the concern? I'm for healthy paranoia, but I'd like to
> know what exactly you're paranoid about.

EDB has this program that runs as a web service.  It runs a proprietary 
tuning routine (what they call "DynaTune") and gives the results out to 
people, which is a nice service they're providing.  No problem with that 
and I'm glad they help out by providing it.

But I don't want to see those results showing up here, for fear that 
community efforts to provide a similar service would be comprimised by 
seeing it.  You'll see people here warning against discussing the design 
of proprietary bits of O****e's implementation lest it similarly taint the 
PostgreSQL design.  I'm just pointing out that the output of EDB's Tuning 
Wizard could be a similarly protected bit of intellectual property.

I already asked EDB last year whether they were intending to release the 
DynaTune program and didn't get the impression that was forthcoming, and 
it's unreasonable to ask them to, so I don't know what further questions 
you might ask them.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD