"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane said: >> The existing initdb code actually does try to scale them in sync to >> some extent ---
> Yes, I know. What I meant was that we could try using one phase > rather than two. But that's only one possible approach. I think that's a bad idea, mainly because max_connections is constrained by more things than just SHMMAX. In a scenario where the number of semaphores constrains max_connections, you'd probably end up failing to push shared_buffers up as high as it could be. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster