Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Sean Asks:
>> What are the odds of going through and revamping some of the tunables
>> in postgresql.conf for the 7.4 release?
> Poor. The time to do this would have been 3 weeks ago, when I
> announced that I was re-organizing them and that Bruce was changing
> many names. We're past Feature Freeze now, and we have a *lot* of
> bug-checking to do with the back-end changes.
FWIW, I think what Sean is suggesting would amount purely to a
documentation change, and as such would be perfectly legitimate during
beta. However, I quite agree with your point that we are far from
having a consensus on good numbers to put in. To get to consensus will
take a lot more work on benchmarking than we've done to date.
regards, tom lane