Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

Tom Lane wrote:

>Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
>
>
>>Are there any objections
>>to me increasing the block size for FreeBSD installations to 16K for
>>the upcoming 7.4 release?
>>
>>
>
>I'm a little uncomfortable with introducing a cross-platform variation
>in the standard block size. That would have implications for things
>like whether a table definition that works on FreeBSD could be expected
>to work elsewhere; to say nothing of recommendations for shared_buffer
>settings and suchlike.
>
>Also, there is no infrastructure for adjusting BLCKSZ automatically at
>configure time, and I don't much want to add it.
>
>
Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board
and what the performance improvements/penalties might be? Hardware has
changed quite a bit over the years.