Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
Date: 2003-08-29 16:50:40
Message-ID: 20030829165040.GQ19388@libertyrms.info
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:06:59AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> The thing is ... there has been presented a strong, valid reason for
> moving to 16k (at least under FreeBSD) ... and there has been a valid

It sounds to me, actually, like there is a strong reason for telling
people running FreeBSD, "Hey, you can get this big speedup at the
possible expense of compatibility by compiling with changes XYZ."
But quietly putting that into packages for distribution strikes me as
the sort of support headache that one really doesn't want.

A

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