Re: Gentoo shared_buffers setting (was: BUG #3888: postmaster...)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Marti <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Gentoo shared_buffers setting (was: BUG #3888: postmaster...)
Date: 2008-01-22 16:18:16
Message-ID: 20080122161816.GD10897@alvh.no-ip.org
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Marti wrote:

> Gentoo defaults to launching PostgreSQL 8.2 with "-N 40 -B 80" which
> is how I hit this problem; this was set in a distro-specific
> configuration file which I previously hadn't even looked at. Does this
> mean that these defaults are insane and I should complain loudly?

Why waste time complaining? Jump ship before you drown. Are there some
boats left?

FWIW the Gentoo packaging of Postgres has historically been more broken
than I care to remember. We reported a couple of serious bugs and due
to a complete silence as response I stopped wasting my with it.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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