Re: PG 10 release notes

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:30:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "'Bruce Momjian'" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We don't normally release-note documentation changes. If this
> >> wasn't purely a documentation change, then I was probably in error
> >> to decide it didn't need to be in the notes.
>
> > It was purely a documentation change, but it was a documented change in a
> > long-standing and popular practice of not using too many shared buffers
> > on Windows, so I thought it wise to add it.
>
> Well, if the intent of the note was to encourage people to raise
> shared_buffers, it didn't do a very good job of that as written,
> because I sure didn't understand it that way.

Do you have any suggestions since it is not a code change that I can
point to? My guess is that the limitation was removed years ago, but we
only found out recently.

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