On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> Please can we either make it user configurable?
>
> Weren't you just complaining that *I* was overcomplicating things?
> I see no evidence to justify inventing a user-visible GUC here.
> We have rough consensus on both the need for and the shape of a formula,
> with just minor discussion about the exact parameters to plug into it.
> Punting the problem off to a GUC is not a better answer.
As long as we get 32 buffers on big systems, I have no complaint.
I'm sorry if I moaned at you personally.
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