Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, daveg <da...@sonic.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:08:37PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >>> Heh - provided you specify >>> SHM_HUGETLB >>> in the relevant call that is :-)
>> I had a patch for this against 8.3 that I could update if there is any >> interest. I suspect it is helpful. > I think it would be a good feature. Of course, we would need > appropriate documentation, and some benchmarks showing that it really > works. I believe that for the equivalent Solaris option, we just automatically enable it when available. So there'd be no need for user documentation. However, I definitely *would* like to see some benchmarks proving that the change actually does something useful. I've always harbored the suspicion that this is just a knob to satisfy people who need knobs to frob. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers