On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2014-05-07 10:07:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In the meantime, it seems like there is an emerging consensus that nobody
>> much likes the existing auto-tuning behavior for effective_cache_size,
>> and that we should revert that in favor of just increasing the fixed
>> default value significantly. I see no problem with a value of say 4GB;
>> that's very unlikely to be worse than the pre-9.4 default (128MB) on any
>> modern machine.
>>
>> Votes for or against?
>
> +1 for increasing it to 4GB and remove the autotuning. I don't like the
> current integration into guc.c much and a new static default doesn't
> seem to be worse than the current autotuning.
It was my proposal originally, so I assume I'd be counted as in favor,
but for the sake of clarity: +1.
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