Tom Lane wrote: >Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Are there any objections >>to me increasing the block size for FreeBSD installations to 16K for >>the upcoming 7.4 release? >> >> > >I'm a little uncomfortable with introducing a cross-platform variation >in the standard block size. That would have implications for things >like whether a table definition that works on FreeBSD could be expected >to work elsewhere; to say nothing of recommendations for shared_buffer >settings and suchlike. > >Also, there is no infrastructure for adjusting BLCKSZ automatically at >configure time, and I don't much want to add it. > > Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board and what the performance improvements/penalties might be? Hardware has changed quite a bit over the years.
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