Re: Can I get some PostgreSQL developer feedback on these five general issues I have with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem?

On 9/24/20 6:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:28:14AM +0200, tutiluren@tutanota.com wrote:
>> Sep 21, 2020, 7:53 PM by jd@commandprompt.com:
>>      See my comment about Google. The information is out there and easy to find.
>>
>> I guess I'm the worst idiot in the world, then, who can't DuckDuckGo (Google is
>> evil) it even after 15 years.
>>
>> Seriously, I didn't type my feedback "for fun". It may be difficult for very
>> intelligent people to understand (as often is the case, because you operate on
>> a whole different level), but the performance-related PostgreSQL configuration
>> options are a *nightmare* to me and many others. I spent *forever* reading
>> about them and couldn't make any sense of it all. Each time I tried, I would
>> give up, frustrated and angry, with no real clue what "magic numbers" it
>> wanted.
>>
>> It's quite baffling to me how this can be so difficult for you all to
>> understand. Even if we disregard the sheer intelligence factor, it's clear that
>> users of PG don't have the same intimate knowledge of PG's internals as the PG
>> developers, nor could possibly be expected to.
>>
>> As mentioned, I kept going back to the default configuration over and over
>> again. Anyone who doesn't is either a genius or pretends/thinks that they
>> understand it. (Or I'm extremely dumb.)
> I think there is a clear dependency that people reading the docs,
> particularly for performance purposes, must have an existing knowledge
> of a lot of low-level things --- this could be the cause of your
> frustration.

And that's a serious problem with the documentation. (Not that I know how to 
fix it in an OSS project.)

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