On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
On 17 January 2014 13:01, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: > Is there any real use-case for not setting wal_buffers to -1 these days? > > Or should we just remove it and use the -1 behaviour at all times? > > IIRC we discussed not keeping it at all when the autotune behavior was > introduced, but said we wanted to keep it "just in case". If we're not ready > to remove it, then does that just mean that we need to fix it so we can?
Robert Haas reported that setting it to 32MB can yield a considerable performance benefit: