On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't read previous discussions, but did we have consensus that "number > of tuples" is better than other units for the parameter? For example, > "threshold bytes" or "percentage in a page" also seems to be reasonable for > me.
I think either of those is more intuitive than tuples per page, and especially the first. But I'm not sure that's really the knob we want either. I feel like what people are really trying to tune here is more like - if a single datum is larger than X bytes, push it out. But I might be all wet. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
