On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:47:10PM -0500, Ron wrote: > On 9/24/20 6:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:28:14AM +0200, tutilu...@tutanota.com wrote: > > > Sep 21, 2020, 7:53 PM by j...@commandprompt.com: > > > See my comment about Google. The information is out there and easy > > > to find. > > > > > > I guess I'm the worst idiot in the world, then, who can't DuckDuckGo > > > (Google is > > > evil) it even after 15 years. > > > > > > Seriously, I didn't type my feedback "for fun". It may be difficult for > > > very > > > intelligent people to understand (as often is the case, because you > > > operate on > > > a whole different level), but the performance-related PostgreSQL > > > configuration > > > options are a *nightmare* to me and many others. I spent *forever* reading > > > about them and couldn't make any sense of it all. Each time I tried, I > > > would > > > give up, frustrated and angry, with no real clue what "magic numbers" it > > > wanted. > > > > > > It's quite baffling to me how this can be so difficult for you all to > > > understand. Even if we disregard the sheer intelligence factor, it's > > > clear that > > > users of PG don't have the same intimate knowledge of PG's internals as > > > the PG > > > developers, nor could possibly be expected to. > > > > > > As mentioned, I kept going back to the default configuration over and over > > > again. Anyone who doesn't is either a genius or pretends/thinks that they > > > understand it. (Or I'm extremely dumb.) > > I think there is a clear dependency that people reading the docs, > > particularly for performance purposes, must have an existing knowledge > > of a lot of low-level things --- this could be the cause of your > > frustration. > > And that's a serious problem with the documentation. (Not that I know how to > fix it in an OSS project.)
We added a glossary in PG 13, so we could certainly have some kind of hardware terms primer which explains various OS features that affect Postgres. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
