> Well, we're not going to increase the default to gigabytes, but we could
> very probably increase it by a factor of 10 or so without anyone
> squawking. It's been awhile since I heard of anyone trying to run PG in
> 4MB shmmax. How much would a change of that size help?
Last I checked, though, this comes out of the allocation available to
shared_buffers. And there definitely are several OSes (several linuxes,
OSX) still limited to 32MB by default.
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