Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD

Alfred,

* Alfred Perlstein (alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org) wrote:
> On 4/21/14, 9:51 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >On 2014-04-21 09:42:06 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >>Sure, to be fair, we are under the gun here for a product, it may just mean
> >>that the end result of that conversation is "mysql".
> >Personally arguments in that vain are removing just about any incentive
> >I have to work on the problem.
>
> I was just explaining that we have a timeline over here and while
> that may disincentive you for providing what we need it would be
> very unfair.

I'm pretty sure Andres was referring to the part where there's a
'threat' to move to some other platform due to a modest performance
degredation, as if it's the only factor involved in making a decision
among the various RDBMS options. If that's really your deciding
criteria instead of the myriad of other factors, I daresay you have your
priorities mixed up.

> There are other Linux centric dbs to pick from. If pgsql is just
> another Linux centric DB then that is unfortunate but something I
> can deal with.

These attacks really aren't going to get you anywhere. We're talking
about a specific performance issue that FreeBSD has and how much PG
(surely not the only application impacted by this issue) should bend
to address it, even though the FreeBSD folks were made aware of the
issue over year ago and have done nothing to address it.

Moreover, you'd like to also define the way we deal with the issue as
being to make it runtime configurable rather than as a compile-time
option, even though 90% of the users out there won't understand the
difference nor would know how to correctly set it (and, in many cases,
may end up making the wrong decision because it's the default for
other platforms, unless we add more code to address this at initdb
time).

Basically, it doesn't sound like you're terribly concerned with the
majority of our user base, even on FreeBSD, and would prefer to try
and browbeat us into doing what you've decided is the correct solution
because it'd work better for you.

I've been guiltly of the same in the past and it's not fun having to
back off from a proposal when it's pointed out that there's a better
option, particularly when it doesn't seem like the alternative is
better for me, but that's just part of working in any large project.

Thanks,

Stephen