Re: GUC variable for setting number of local buffers

В Сбт, 19/03/2005 в 12:57 -0500, Tom Lane пишет:

> It's already true that the individual buffers, as opposed to the buffer
> descriptors, are allocated only as needed; which makes the overhead
> of a large local_buffers setting pretty small if you don't actually do
> much with temp tables in a given session.  So I was thinking about
> making the default value fairly robust, maybe 1000 (as compared to
> the historical value of 64...).

Why does the dba need to set that variable at all then?

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