On 2017-01-21 12:46:05 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I stand by the opinion that changing default which affect performance > > without any benchmark is bad idea. > > I'd be surprised if the performance impact has really changed all that > much since the code went in. Perhaps that's overly optimistic of me.
Back then there were cases with well over 20% overhead. More edge cases, but that's a lot. And our scalability back then was a lot worse than where we are today. > > And for the record, I care much less about overall TPS, I care a lot > > more about amount of WAL produced because in 90%+ environments that I > > work with any increase in WAL amount means at least double the increase > > in network bandwidth due to replication. > > Do you run with all defaults in those environments? Irrelevant - changing requires re-initdb'ing. That's unrealistic. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
