Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We've had that hack in there for almost a month now, and no strange >> behaviors have turned up in the buildfarm. So I'm inclined to think >> it has served its purpose, and we should revert it before anyone else >> comes to bogus conclusions about performance.
> I thought the idea was more to have people playing the home game to test it > out. They're much more likely to do something unexpected than the build farm. True, but I hope some of that has happened already. At this point I feel that we can't let the default-off patch persist into beta, which means there is not a lot more testing we can get from it. The scenario I'm foreseeing is somebody runs performance tests on 8.3beta (failing to realize that he's testing sync-commit off), publishes some amazing numbers, and then the release version is a lot worse. That will be a public-relations disaster. We can do everything we can to encourage beta-testers to test the sync-commit-off mode, but I don't want people to not know what they are testing. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster