Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > I'm working on cleaning up postgresql.conf and pg_settings for the > release. Attach

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-09-13 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, > Josh, is any of this happening for 8.3? Hmmm, just the format cleanup. I haven't heard any objections, but I haven't heard any comments on the underlying broken functionality either (like seq_scan_cost), which are beyond me to fix. Patch next week. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun S

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Josh, is any of this happening for 8.3? Should I run with this or let it lay? > > --- > > Josh Berkus wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm working on cleaning up pos

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Josh, is any of this happening for 8.3? I would be willing to take a stab at this and submit by Monday. Joshua D. Drake > > --- > > Josh Berkus wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-09-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh, is any of this happening for 8.3? --- Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > I'm working on cleaning up postgresql.conf and pg_settings for the > release. Attached is a sample WIP. It's not in patch form because I'm > not

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 2. Juli 2007 13:03 schrieb Josh Berkus: > (change requires restart): this phrase appears over 20 times in the > notes.  This is enough times to be really repetitive and take up a lot > of scrolling space, while not actually covering all startup-time > parameters. Which ones are missing?

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >>> # wal_buffers = 1MB >> Is there really evidence in favor of such a high setting for this, >> either? > I noticed consistant improvements in throughput on pgbench results with > lots of clients going from the default

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Tom Lane wrote: # wal_buffers = 1MB Is there really evidence in favor of such a high setting for this, either? I noticed consistant improvements in throughput on pgbench results with lots of clients going from the default to 256KB, flatlining above that; it seemed suffic

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: (change requires restart): this phrase appears over 20 times in the notes. This is enough times to be really repetitive and take up a lot of scrolling space, while not actually covering all startup-time parameters. We should either (a) remove all such notes and rely on docs,

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm working on cleaning up postgresql.conf and pg_settings for the >> ... >> seq_scan_cost: this is independant of all of the other _costs. So? All the other costs are independent of it, too. I don't understand what problem you have with it. >> (chan

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: (change requires restart): this phrase appears over 20 times in the notes. This is enough times to be really repetitive and take up a lot of scrolling space, while not actually covering all startup- time parameters. We should either (a) remove

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Josh Berkus
This time *with* the attachment. All, I'm working on cleaning up postgresql.conf and pg_settings for the release. Attached is a sample WIP. It's not in patch form because I'm not done yet; I've just been editing postgresql.conf and need to fix the docs and pg_settings to match. Issues

[HACKERS] Postgresql.conf cleanup

2007-07-02 Thread Josh Berkus
All, I'm working on cleaning up postgresql.conf and pg_settings for the release. Attached is a sample WIP. It's not in patch form because I'm not done yet; I've just been editing postgresql.conf and need to fix the docs and pg_settings to match. Issues encountered and changes made: Postgr