Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAD064FC57 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:33:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44683-04 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:33:33 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B7464FC2D for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:33:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBGFXU0P029669; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:33:31 -0500 (EST) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Pg Docs Subject: Re: "managing kernel resources" and platform-specific notes In-reply-to: <20081216144836.GJ4741@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <20081216144836.GJ4741@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:48:36 -0300" Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:33:30 -0500 Message-ID: <29668.1229441610@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200812/14 X-Sequence-Number: 5021 Alvaro Herrera writes: > We've got some platform-specific notes in the "managing kernel > resources" (17.4.1 on 8.4devel) page. Since we recently got > platform-specific sections in the installation instructions (15.8), it > seems a good idea to move these notes to the new sections. > Opinions? Hmm, I'm not convinced. 95% of what was put into 15.8 is really platform-specific *build* instructions. Merging configuration information into that doesn't seem appropriate. In general I think chapter 15 is about getting a correct set of binaries, while chapter 17 deals with system configuration issues. These should be kept separate, because in the common case of using a prepackaged build, chapter 15 is of no interest but 17 still is. It's quite likely that some of the stuff extracted from the old platform FAQs really belongs in 17. regards, tom lane