Greg Smith <gsm...@gregsmith.com> writes: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote: >> There are also a number of documentation issues open, particularly >> Dimitri's work on documenting the GIST API better, but we can work >> on those later. We've never considered that the RC freeze applies >> to documentation.
> I had a question in this area actually. I'm working on making a mini > version of http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server > under "Server Configuration" in the docs. Basically, make a new section > titled "Performance Optimization" that provides a short list of values to > tune for better performance. We've got plenty of evidence it's hard to > figure out which of the knobs in the resource/query sections are the big > important ones, and which sound cool but tend to be less useful. > If I got that done over the next week or two, would that still be early > enough to make it into 8.4? We've made a lot of progress in the last year > building community consensus in this area, and I'd like to get at least an > intro to that into the official docs. If there's actually consensus on it, it could go in post-RC, but I'm not sure we're as close as all that ... BTW, wouldn't it fit better under Performance Tips (chapter 14)? 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
