On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think that the reason it's historically been a constant is that the
> original coding took advantage of having a compile-time-constant number
> of buffers --- but since we went over to the common SLRU infrastructure
> for several different logs, there's no longer any benefit whatever to
> using a simple constant.
You astound me, you really do.
Parameterised slru buffer sizes were proposed about for 8.3 and opposed by you.
I guess we all reserve the right to change our minds...
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