Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-09-29 14:44:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Personally I think a hardwired #define should be plenty. What's the >> argument that users will need to tune this at runtime?
> That right now it can make quite noticeable differences in > scalability. And we have not much data to justify 8 as the default. And > that's surely not going to change if we require recompiles. I wonder why it's a fixed constant at all, and not something like "wal_buffers / 8". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers