Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

2009/8/26 Jean-Michel Pouré <jm(at)poure(dot)com>:
> Dear Kevin
>
>> So when you talk about focusing on usablility improvements you mean
>> that priority should be given to supporting MySQL-specific syntax
>> extensions and ensuring that there are no queries where the MySQL
>> optimizer comes up with a more efficient plan than PostgreSQL?
>
> Yes. PostgreSQL should be able to run MySQL code quoted here:
>
> This is a prerequisite for people to be willing to test and adopt
> PostgreSQL. People are not willing to debug frameworks like Drupal and
> port them to PostgreSQL. We are quite alone and lost.

Er, so we should debug Drupal for them? I find it difficult to
believe that's the best use of our time.

>> One concern I have is that you don't mention PostgreSQL configuration
>> in your performance advice, and I seem to remember you said that you
>> didn't tune your postgresql.conf file beyond boosting the
>> shared_buffers setting.  If that's true, you might be somewhat
>> surprised with the performance improvements if you tweak just a few
>> other settings.
>
> shared_buffer 24M.

That doesn't actually respond to anything he said in that paragraph.

...Robert