Re: Has anybody think about changing BLCKSZ to an option of initdb?

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:53 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:29:43PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> > The main advantage would be for circumstances such as the Windows
> > installer where users are installing precompiled binaries. They don't
> > get an opportunity to choose the block size at all. (Similarly for
> > users of binary-only commercial products such as EDB's but the Windows
> > installer makes a pretty good argument on its own).
>
> And all the linux distributions which ship precompiled binaries. I'm
> sure there are people who compile postgres themselves but I think there
> are more who don't.

I think that is an understatement. I would say 99% of postgresql users
do NOT compile from source. Heck the only time I compile from source is
when I need to fix mis-configured defaults in RH packages (which is why
we now have rpms that fix those defaults) or when we have back patched
something for a customer.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Have a nice day,
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