Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-10-03 12:40:21 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Well, I think the issue is that having a GUC that can't reasonably be
>> tuned by 95% of our users is nearly useless. Few users are going to run
>> benchmarks to see what the optimal value is.
> It's possible to convince customers to play with a performance
> influencing parameter and see how the results are. Even in
> production.
I'm a bit dubious that people will be willing to experiment in production
with a GUC that requires a database restart to change.
regards, tom lane