Re: The shared buffers challenge

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Any attempt to make a serious change to the documentation around performance
> turns into a bikeshedding epic, where the burden of proof to make a change
> is too large to be worth the trouble to me anymore.  I first started
> publishing tuning papers outside of the main docs because it was the path of
> least resistance to actually getting something useful in front of people.
>  After failing to get even basic good recommendations for
> checkpoint_segments into the docs, I completely gave up on focusing there as
> my primary way to spread this sort of information.

Hmm.  That's rather unfortunate.  +1 for revisiting that topic, if you
have the energy for it.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company