On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Any attempt to make a serious change to the documentation around performance
> turns into a bikeshedding epic, where the burden of proof to make a change
> is too large to be worth the trouble to me anymore. I first started
> publishing tuning papers outside of the main docs because it was the path of
> least resistance to actually getting something useful in front of people.
> After failing to get even basic good recommendations for
> checkpoint_segments into the docs, I completely gave up on focusing there as
> my primary way to spread this sort of information.
Hmm. That's rather unfortunate. +1 for revisiting that topic, if you
have the energy for it.
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