pgsql@mohawksoft.com writes:
> What would be a good strategy for addressing this issue? Is it an issue at
> all? Is it simply a documentation issue? Do we craft some sort of test
> that can characterize the behavior? What would that test need to do?
It seems to me that it's a documentation issue. Maybe we could add a
section to the "Performance Tips" chapter advising that people
experiment with the different settings.
I don't think any test that we could build would be as useful as simply
trying the different settings with an installation's real workload.
regards, tom lane