Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.
regards, tom lane