Re: Oracle rant - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Subject Re: Oracle rant
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Msg-id 1042700162.582.5.camel@altfrangg.fortytwo.ch
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In response to Re: Oracle rant  (Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>)
Responses Re: Oracle rant  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> (i.e. arcane
> little "need to know" things that trap all but the initiated...

So, for postgres, that means:- a good thing the autovacuum thingy is coming along- postgres should auto-tune itself -
the*cost could perhaps be 
adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there should be
some sensible way to determine an optimal setting for the famous
shared_buffers (and the default should be something that gets reasonable
performance on common cases)

No, I don't expect the second one soon - I know how hard it is. No, I'm
not debating that PostgreSQL is not much, much, much easier to
administrate and set up than Oracle. I'm just saying that there are
*some* small arcane details in postgres, too (although, at least, they
don't affect stability, just performance).

cheers
-- vbi

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