Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Having said that, though, I do wonder whether we couldn't bump them up a
>> little. Are there still any live platforms where the default SHMMAX is
>> less than 4 MB? (There was discussion of this a month or two back on
>> pghackers, but no conclusion.)
> Could we have per-platforms defaults?
Hmm, that might be a nice solution. Could we arrange for the template
file to supply defaults for shared_buffers and so forth? They'd have
to be inserted into postgresql.conf during installation or initdb, but
we already do some editing of postgresql.conf during initdb ...
regards, tom lane