On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> There is not only a performance penalty, but a reliability penalty.
> Enabling these switches turns on a whole lot of code that, with all
> due respect to those who have worked on it, is absolutely positively
> guaranteed to be full of bugs. Not all of which are going to be flushed
> out during beta. If we ship 9.0 with these things on by default, it
> will result in an immediate reliability downgrade for installations that
> are simply doing what they did before and not even interested in HS/SR.
>
> Maybe by 9.1 or 9.2 it would be sensible to have some of this code
> turned on by default. But it is absolutely not in keeping with this
> project's mindset or historical practice to enable it by default now.
>
> regards, tom lane
+1
Joshua D. Drake
>
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