Re: Why do we still have commit_delay and commit_siblings?

On 14 May 2012 15:09, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have a strong opinion
> about that, and welcome discussion.  But I'm always going to be
> opposed to adding or removing things on the basis of what we didn't
> test.

The subject of the thread is "Why do we still have commit_delay and
commit_siblings?". I don't believe that anyone asserted that we should
remove the settings without some amount of due-diligence testing.
Simon said that thorough testing on many types of hardware was not
practical, which, considering that commit_delay is probably hardly
ever (never?) used in production, I'd have to agree with. With all due
respect, for someone that doesn't have a strong opinion on the
efficacy of commit_delay in 9.2, you seemed to have a strong opinion
on the standard that would have to be met in order to deprecate it.

I think we all could stand to give each other the benefit of the doubt more.

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