On 04/21/2014 12:44 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 4/21/14 9:38 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 04/21/2014 12:25 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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".
>
>
I told you what *we* (i.e. the PostgreSQL community) need, IMNSHO (and
speaking as a Postgres developer and consultant of 10 or so years standing).
cheers
andrew