Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > NB> So far:
> >
> > NB> shared_buffers = 1/16th of total memory
> > NB> effective_cache_size = 80% of the supposed kernel cache.
> >
> > Please take into account the blocksize compiled into PG, too...
>
> Would anyone object to a patch that exports the blocksize via a
> readonly GUC? Too many tunables are page dependant, which is
> infuriating when copying configs from DB to DB. I wish pgsql had some
> notion of percentages for values that end with a '%'. -sc
Makes sense to me --- we already have some read-only GUC variables.
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