Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:21 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Should we log a warning at startup when effective_cache_size is less
>> than shared_buffers?
>
> I would say no. Although I could see an argument for the default
> effective_cache_size always being the same size as shared_buffers.
That's certainly not what we've meant historically by ECS. Generally
it's been the size of shared_buffers *and* the FS cache. If it were
just the size of shared_buffers, then we wouldn't need a 2nd setting,
would we?
--Josh