| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove fsync ON/OFF as a visible option? |
| Date: | 2015-03-21 19:34:04 |
| Message-ID: | 550DC7AC.1060007@commandprompt.com |
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On 03/21/2015 12:00 AM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> -1
>
> Personally I'm against hiding *any* settings. Choosing sensible defaults
> - yes! Hiding them - that reeks of secret squirrel nonsense and overpaid
> Oracle dbas that knew the undocumented settings for various
> capabilities. I think/hope that no open source project will try to
> emulate that meme!
I don't agree with this at all. On the one hand:
Postgres: So many settings people have no idea where to start (unless
they have background)
vs
Postgres: Only the settings that are "needed" for 95% of installations.
JD
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