From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Jignesh K(dot) Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)sun(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Overhauling GUCS |
Date: | 2008-06-02 18:06:04 |
Message-ID: | 200806021106.05833.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Greg,
> Like some of the other GUC simplification ideas that show up sometimes
> (unifying all I/O and limiting background processes based on that total
> is another), this is hard to do internally. Josh's proposal has a fair
> amount of work involved, but the code itself doesn't need to be clever
> or too intrusive. Unifying all the memory settings would require being
> both clever and intrusive, and I doubt you'll find anybody who could
> pull it off who isn't already overtasked with more important
> improvements for the 8.4 timeframe.
Plus, I'm a big fan of "enable an API" rather than "write a feature". I
think that there are people & companies out there who can write better
autotuning tools than I can, and I'd rather give them a place to plug
those tools in than trying to write autotuning into the postmaster.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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