Greg, > Like some of the other GUC simplification ideas that show up sometimes > (unifying all I/O and limiting background processes based on that total > is another), this is hard to do internally. Josh's proposal has a fair > amount of work involved, but the code itself doesn't need to be clever > or too intrusive. Unifying all the memory settings would require being > both clever and intrusive, and I doubt you'll find anybody who could > pull it off who isn't already overtasked with more important > improvements for the 8.4 timeframe.
Plus, I'm a big fan of "enable an API" rather than "write a feature". I think that there are people & companies out there who can write better autotuning tools than I can, and I'd rather give them a place to plug those tools in than trying to write autotuning into the postmaster. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
