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

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacky Leng <lengjianquan(at)163(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Has anybody think about changing BLCKSZ to an option of initdb?
Date: 2009-03-14 12:53:57
Message-ID: 20090314125357.GB15622@svana.org
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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.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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