Re: Overhauling GUCS

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
Date: 2008-06-11 16:37:22
Message-ID: 484FFF42.7000408@agliodbs.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> Oh, and wal_buffers, the default for which we should just change if it
>> weren't for SHMMAX.
>
> Uh, why? On a workload of mostly small transactions, what value is
> there in lots of wal_buffers?

Actually, it's also useful for any workload with many connections. Any
time you have high throughput, really. We've seen this on DBT2,
SpecJAppserver and iGen.

--Josh

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