Re: Oracle rant

> (i.e. arcane
> little "need to know" things that trap all but the initiated...

So, for postgres, that means:
- a good thing the autovacuum thingy is coming along
- postgres should auto-tune itself - the *cost could perhaps be
adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there should be
some sensible way to determine an optimal setting for the famous
shared_buffers (and the default should be something that gets reasonable
performance on common cases)

No, I don't expect the second one soon - I know how hard it is. No, I'm
not debating that PostgreSQL is not much, much, much easier to
administrate and set up than Oracle. I'm just saying that there are
*some* small arcane details in postgres, too (although, at least, they
don't affect stability, just performance).

cheers
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