Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD

On 04/21/2014 12:44 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 4/21/14 9:38 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 04/21/2014 12:25 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. OS developers are not the target audience for GUCs. If the OS 
>>>> developers want to test and can't be botherrd with building with a 
>>>> couple of different parameters then I'm not very impressed.
>>>>
>>>> 2. We should be trying to get rid of GUCs where possible, and only 
>>>> add them when we must. The more there are the more we confuse 
>>>> users. If a packager can pick a default surely they can pick build 
>>>> options too.
>>> Thank you for the lecture Andrew!  Really pleasant way to treat a 
>>> user and a fan of the system. :)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I confess to being mightily confused.
>
> Sure, to clarify:
>
> Andrew, you just told someone who in a db stack sits both below (as a 
> pgsql user 15 years) and above (as a FreeBSD kernel dev 15 years) your 
> software what they "really need".
>
>


I told you what *we* (i.e. the PostgreSQL community) need, IMNSHO (and 
speaking as a Postgres developer and consultant of 10 or so years standing).

cheers

andrew