This value of wal_buffers is simply ridiculous.
Instead I think is ridiculous a wal_buffers = 8 ( 64KB ) by default.
There is no point making WAL buffers higher than 8. I have done much testing of this and it makes not the slightest difference to performance that I could measure.
Chris
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