@andy_pavlo talking about number of knobs databases increasing over timepic.twitter.com/zC5gC25bdj
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About 20 of postgres' are just for informational purposes (largely showing compile time info) and can't be changed ;).
Same with mysql: the ones u ever need to change are much fewer, but i think he is talking about the upward trend overall
Yea, I wasn't particularly serious ;) (you *cannot* change those, it's not that your normally don't need to)
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