> > I'm writing up the new GUCs, and noticed that max_prepared_transactions
> > defaults to 5. This is too many for most applications (which don't use them
> > at all) and far too few for applications which use them regularly.
>
> I think the intention was to have enough so you could test 'em (in
> particular, run the regression tests) without eating resources for
> the majority of installations that aren't using them.
>
> Certainly an installation that *is* using 'em would want a higher
> setting.
Can' we make the default 0, which is what the majority should want, and have the regression test explicitly set it up
onthe commandline?
/Magnus