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Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD

Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>

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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Palle Girgensohn <girgen@freebsd.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
Date: 2014-04-21T16:44:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add shared_memory_type GUC.

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".

-Alfred