Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> How high on the hierarchy of PostgreSQL's "needs" is making a single
> option a tunable versus compile time thing? I mean seriously you
> mean to stick on this one point when one of your users are asking
> you about this? That is pretty concerning to me.
I think the sticking point here is that the problem affects a single
platform, and it can easily be construed as a platform bug. For
problems that affect PostgreSQL as a whole for everybody, we hesitate a
lot less when it comes to creating new runtime options.
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