On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I'm comfortable digging in my heels against doing *lame* hints > just because "it's what all the other kids are doing," which I think > is the only thing which would have satisfied the OP on this thread. > From both on-list posts and ones exchanged off-list with me, it > seems he was stubbornly resistant to properly tuning the server to > see if any problems remained, or posting particular problems to see > how they would be most effectively handled in PostgreSQL. We > obviously can't be drawn into dumb approaches because of > ill-informed demands like that. Nor was I proposing any such thing. But that doesn't make "we don't want hints" an accurate statement. Despite the impression that OP went away with, the real situation is a lot more nuanced than that, and the statement on the Todo list gives the wrong impression, IMHO. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
