Re: Moving postgresql.conf tunables into 2003...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Moving postgresql.conf tunables into 2003...
Date: 2003-07-04 03:52:09
Message-ID: 12705.1057290729@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Sean Asks:
>> What are the odds of going through and revamping some of the tunables
>> in postgresql.conf for the 7.4 release?

> Poor. The time to do this would have been 3 weeks ago, when I
> announced that I was re-organizing them and that Bruce was changing
> many names. We're past Feature Freeze now, and we have a *lot* of
> bug-checking to do with the back-end changes.

FWIW, I think what Sean is suggesting would amount purely to a
documentation change, and as such would be perfectly legitimate during
beta. However, I quite agree with your point that we are far from
having a consensus on good numbers to put in. To get to consensus will
take a lot more work on benchmarking than we've done to date.

regards, tom lane

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