Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
Date
Msg-id 19387.1062103871@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
Responses Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
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Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm a little uncomfortable with introducing a cross-platform variation
>> in the standard block size.
>> 
> Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board
> and what the performance improvements/penalties might be?  Hardware has
> changed quite a bit over the years.

Not that I know of.  That might actually be a more reasonable proposal
than changing it only on one platform.  It would take a fair amount
of legwork to generate enough evidence to convince people, though ...
        regards, tom lane


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