Re: cvs head? initdb?

Our philosophy has never been to give people configuration options just
in case they might be valuable to them. If we did that, we would be
like Oracle.

We give config options only if we can't decide the best default. For
testing, you can have an #ifdef and we can test it ourselves. If we can
find the best default, no need to burden the user with it.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2003 14:23, Neil Conway wrote:
> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > > Robert Treat wrote:
> > >> people would always want to have those choices (especially for doing
> > >> development/testing/benchmarking between the different methods) the
> > >> question is is it worth the effort to give people those options?
> >
> > To me, the question is whether it's worth the additional complexity
> > for users and administrators, and to a lesser extent the code
> > complexity. (I think the answer is "no")
>
> i don't think the complexity for users is that high... depending on
> implementation. assuming we end up with clearly definable cases where one is
> more usefull than the other. (which seems just as likely not to happen as to
> happen)
> >
> > > And in the case of the cache strategy, the point is that different
> > > access patterns might be served better by different strategies.
> >
> > Granted -- but IMHO it would be better to concentrate on making sure
> > that ARC adapts to any access pattern so that the set of access
> > patterns where you _really want_ LRU is a small as possible, if not
> > empty.
> >
>
> but how do you test this if you cant run them both against each other to
> compare? (initally running vs 7.4 does tell you something, but even now, 7.5
> improved cross datatype index improvments could skew the results of any
> comparisons)
>
> Robert Treat
> --
> Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
>

--
Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us
pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 359-1001
+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road
+ Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073