On 4/21/14 9:38 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 04/21/2014 12:25 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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>>>
>>> 1. OS developers are not the target audience for GUCs. If the OS
>>> developers want to test and can't be botherrd with building with a
>>> couple of different parameters then I'm not very impressed.
>>>
>>> 2. We should be trying to get rid of GUCs where possible, and only
>>> add them when we must. The more there are the more we confuse users.
>>> If a packager can pick a default surely they can pick build options
>>> too.
>> Thank you for the lecture Andrew! Really pleasant way to treat a
>> user and a fan of the system. :)
>>
>>
>
> I confess to being mightily confused.
Sure, to clarify:
Andrew, you just told someone who in a db stack sits both below (as a
pgsql user 15 years) and above (as a FreeBSD kernel dev 15 years) your
software what they "really need".
-Alfred