Re: Resolving 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Resolving 8.4 open items
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Msg-id 11519.1244661336@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Resolving 8.4 open items  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There are also a number of documentation issues open, particularly
>> Dimitri's work on documenting the GIST API better, but we can work
>> on those later.  We've never considered that the RC freeze applies
>> to documentation.

> I had a question in this area actually.  I'm working on making a mini 
> version of http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server 
> under "Server Configuration" in the docs.  Basically, make a new section 
> titled "Performance Optimization" that provides a short list of values to 
> tune for better performance.  We've got plenty of evidence it's hard to 
> figure out which of the knobs in the resource/query sections are the big 
> important ones, and which sound cool but tend to be less useful.

> If I got that done over the next week or two, would that still be early 
> enough to make it into 8.4?  We've made a lot of progress in the last year 
> building community consensus in this area, and I'd like to get at least an 
> intro to that into the official docs.

If there's actually consensus on it, it could go in post-RC, but I'm not
sure we're as close as all that ...

BTW, wouldn't it fit better under Performance Tips (chapter 14)?
        regards, tom lane


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