Re: 8192 BLCKSZ ?

> At 09:30 PM 11/27/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >> Well, true, but when you have 256 MB or a half-gig or more to devote to
> >> the cache, you get plenty of blocks, and in pre-PG 7.1 the 8KB limit is a
> >> pain for a lot of folks.
> >
> >Agreed. The other problem is that most people have 2-4MB of cache, so a
> >32k default would be too big for them.
>
> I've always been fine with the default, and in fact agree with it. The
> OpenACS project recommends a 16KB default for PG 7.0, but that's only so
> we can hold reasonable-sized lzText strings in forum tables, etc.
>
> I was only lamenting the fact that the world seems to have the impression
> that it's not a default, but rather a hard-wired limit.

Agreed.

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