Shared buffers advice for windows in the wiki

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Subject: Shared buffers advice for windows in the wiki
Date: 2021-03-31 09:39:39
Message-ID: CAPE8EZ5Oyph17snTSf-kwYR9Wt-14=XL5GyQrEtGon3EK_ZRbg@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,

The wiki page [1] still mentions that : "On Windows the useful range (for
shared buffers) is 64MB to 512MB". The topic showed up in a pgtune
discussion [2].

Is it possible to remove this advice or add that since pg10 it no longer
holds true [3] ?

Benoit

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server
[2] https://github.com/le0pard/pgtune/discussions/50
[3]
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/81c52728f82be5303ea16508255e948017f4cd87#diff-0553fde8fa0de14527cb5c14b02adb28bdedf3e458f7347b51fb11e1dade2fa7

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