Re: Overhauling GUCS

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
Date: 2008-06-12 17:42:43
Message-ID: 200806121042.44469.josh@agliodbs.com
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Bruce,

> I am concerned that each wizzard is going to have to duplicate the same
> logic each time, and adjust to release-based changes.

I think that's a feature, not a bug. Right now, I'm not at all convinced that
my algorithms for setting the various major dials are great (I just think
that nobody yet has better). So I think we should *encourage* people to
write their own wizards until we find one that works reasonably well.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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