Kevin Grittner wrote: > <gnuoytr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -- None of that is anything for amateurs to play with. > > > > Not jam a stick in anybody's eye, but shouldn't database pros not > > be amateurs? > > While many PostgreSQL installations are managed by professional > DBAs, or programmers or consultants with a deep enough grasp of the > issues to tune a knob like that appropriately, PostgreSQL is also > used in environments without such staff. In fact, there is pressure > to make PostgreSQL easier to configure for exactly that reason. If > we add more knobs which are this hard to tune correctly, we would > risk inundation with complaints from people to tried to use it and > made things worse. Agreed. Here is a blog entry that explains some of the tradeoffs of adding knobs: http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2009.html#January_10_2009 -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
