> current default of 1000 pages (8Mb) seems really pretty silly for modern
> machines; we could certainly set it to 10 times that without problems,
> and maybe much more. Thoughts?
May be, set by default effective_cache_size equal to number of shared buffers?
If pgsql is configured to use quarter or half of total memory for shared
buffer, then effective_cache_size will have good approximation...
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