Re: Multiple Indexing, performance impact - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Multiple Indexing, performance impact
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Msg-id 200106222206.f5MM6cI26794@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Multiple Indexing, performance impact  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Multiple Indexing, performance impact  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> This does remind me that I'd been thinking of suggesting that we
> >> raise the default -B to something more reasonable, maybe 1000 or so
> >> (yielding an 8-meg-plus shared memory area).
>
> > BSD/OS has a 4MB max but we document how to increase it by recompiling
> > the kernel.
>
> Hmm.  Anyone like the idea of a platform-specific default established
> by configure?  We could set it in the template file on platforms where
> the default SHMMAX is too small to allow 1000 buffers.

Template file seems like a good idea for platforms that can't handle the
default.  I don't think configure should be doing such tests because the
target could be a different kernel.

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