On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:05 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> > Fair enough, then make sure you are demoing on a platform that can
> > handle PostgreSQL :)
>
> There are a lot of good reasons for people to be running an instance
> of PostgreSQL on a small machine, running it on a machine with other
> software, or running many clusters of PostgreSQL on a single machine.
> It may not be possible for this tool to generate useful values for all
> of these situations, but it seems to me that should be viewed as a
> limitation of the tool, rather than some moral failing on the part of
> the people with those needs. Let's cover what we can, document the
> limitations, and avoid any user-hostile tones....
I didn't say don't run on a small machine :) I said make sure you run on
one that is up for the job. There is a difference.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> -Kevin
>
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