> The "factory default" has never been 1; AFAIR it's always been 3,
> and like many of the other defaults that's aimed for small-and-slow
> machines. If you're not short of disk space, something like 30
> is reasonable. (Note this can cost you 32MB per increment, so a
> setting of 30 means you're willing to invest up to a gigabyte of
> disk space in WAL. Time was when that was an astonishing amount
> of disk, but no more...)
As this is a fairly common problem, should we consider increasing the
default to 10?
J
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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