Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
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In response to Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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> But frankly, I don't see any particular problem with the defaults.

random_page_cost anyone?

> It looks like initdb is doing a better job of detecting system sizing
> than it used to, and the default numbers are no longer embarrassingly
> low.  The 524K of yesteryear *was* embarrassing, but 32MB seems enough
> larger to me.

Yes, it's gotten better, but we're not quite there yet. I think the new
ability to specify values in common terms like "MB" will help us out a
lot too (thanks Peter!)

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