On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > There is not only a performance penalty, but a reliability penalty. > Enabling these switches turns on a whole lot of code that, with all > due respect to those who have worked on it, is absolutely positively > guaranteed to be full of bugs. Not all of which are going to be flushed > out during beta. If we ship 9.0 with these things on by default, it > will result in an immediate reliability downgrade for installations that > are simply doing what they did before and not even interested in HS/SR. > > Maybe by 9.1 or 9.2 it would be sensible to have some of this code > turned on by default. But it is absolutely not in keeping with this > project's mindset or historical practice to enable it by default now. > > regards, tom lane
+1 Joshua D. Drake > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
