Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Oh, and wal_buffers, the default for which we should just change if it
>> weren't for SHMMAX.
>
> Uh, why? On a workload of mostly small transactions, what value is
> there in lots of wal_buffers?
Actually, it's also useful for any workload with many connections. Any
time you have high throughput, really. We've seen this on DBT2,
SpecJAppserver and iGen.
--Josh