Re: cvs head? initdb?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cvs head? initdb?
Date: 2003-11-15 15:54:46
Message-ID: 200311151554.hAFFskb11871@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Please tell me what is the best default cache replacement strategy for
> PostgreSQL. Comparing the old LRU to the new ARC the winner is clear.
> But what about MQ, 2Q, FBR, LFRU, LRU2 LFU and MRU?

Is there a BJM? I would like to have one named after me too! :-)

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