Re: Resolving 8.4 open items

Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There are also a number of documentation issues open, particularly
>> Dimitri's work on documenting the GIST API better, but we can work
>> on those later. We've never considered that the RC freeze applies
>> to documentation.

> I had a question in this area actually. I'm working on making a mini
> version of http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server
> under "Server Configuration" in the docs. Basically, make a new section
> titled "Performance Optimization" that provides a short list of values to
> tune for better performance. We've got plenty of evidence it's hard to
> figure out which of the knobs in the resource/query sections are the big
> important ones, and which sound cool but tend to be less useful.

> If I got that done over the next week or two, would that still be early
> enough to make it into 8.4? We've made a lot of progress in the last year
> building community consensus in this area, and I'd like to get at least an
> intro to that into the official docs.

If there's actually consensus on it, it could go in post-RC, but I'm not
sure we're as close as all that ...

BTW, wouldn't it fit better under Performance Tips (chapter 14)?

regards, tom lane