Re: random_page_cost = 2.0 on Heroku Postgres

Peter,

> We've funded some work by Peter Geoghegan to make pg_stat_statements
> more useful, but the patch is currently sitting in the commitfest in
> need of a champion. I'd very much like to see it landed.

Ok, let me review it then ...

> Between that work, 9.2, and Dimitri's extension whitelist module,
> pg_stat_statements should be usefully installable by everyone. We'd
> seriously consider installing it by default, but that would make us
> Not Vanilla, which is something we avoid very diligently.

Bummer.  You can get why this would be useful for autotuning, though, yes?

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