Re: Resolving 8.4 open items

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.

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