Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> writes: > On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> Although this is true, the administrator's estimate of whether that >> guarantee is or is not provided might not be as consistent as the >> hardware behavior itself. I am generally of the feeling that having >> to restart the server to change setting sucks, and while it surely >> sucks less for this setting than some, mostly because few people >> change this setting in the first place, I'm still not convinced that >> this is moving in the right direction.
> I think code complexity matters quite a lot. If we can eliminate some > complex code in a complex area, and all we give up is a feature with > essentially no use case, that sounds like we're moving in the right > direction to me. Isn't this whole discussion academic in view of Andres' point? http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130903121935.gb5...@awork2.anarazel.de regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
