Re: Multiple Indexing, performance impact

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> This does remind me that I'd been thinking of suggesting that we
> >> raise the default -B to something more reasonable, maybe 1000 or so
> >> (yielding an 8-meg-plus shared memory area).
>
> > BSD/OS has a 4MB max but we document how to increase it by recompiling
> > the kernel.
>
> Hmm. Anyone like the idea of a platform-specific default established
> by configure? We could set it in the template file on platforms where
> the default SHMMAX is too small to allow 1000 buffers.

Template file seems like a good idea for platforms that can't handle the
default. I don't think configure should be doing such tests because the
target could be a different kernel.

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