From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Klaus P. Pieper" <kpi6288@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: pgbench Windows outperforms Debian in Write tests while Debian is
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"Klaus P. Pieper" <kpi6288@gmail.com> writes:
> However, there may be more people like me just expecting the default
> settings in postgresql.conf being "safe". As far as I understand, they are
> not for the Windows installation. A comment in postgresql.conf might help
> those people.

Yeah, we've just recently realized that they're not safe for Windows
unless you set some system-level options that are not on by default :-(.
I think probably what needs to happen is that we change the default
on Windows.  It's not really my field though, and not much discussion
has happened about it yet.

			regards, tom lane


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