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

Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm a little uncomfortable with introducing a cross-platform variation
>> in the standard block size.
>> 
> 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.

Not that I know of.  That might actually be a more reasonable proposal
than changing it only on one platform.  It would take a fair amount
of legwork to generate enough evidence to convince people, though ...
        regards, tom lane