Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Alfred,

* Alfred Perlstein (alfred@freebsd.org) wrote:
> On 4/21/14, 12:47 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >  Asking for help to address the FreeBSD performance would have
> >been much better received. Thanks, Stephen
>
> That is exactly what I did, I asked for a version of postgresql that
> was easy to switch at runtime between two behaviors.
>
> That would make it a LOT easier to run a few scripts and make sure I
> got the correct binary without having to munge PREFIX and a bunch of
> PATH and other tools to get my test harness to DTRT.

I'm sure one of the hackers would be happy to provide you with a patch
to help you with your testing.

That's quite a different thing from asking for a GUC to be provided and
then supported over the next 5 years as part of the core release, which
is what I believe we all thought you were asking for.
Thanks,
    Stephen