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commit    119027ec8b8d02c8d70e4916df1b41cde78f674d
Author:   Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date:     Wed Jul 04 07:22:21 2012 +0000

    Remove reference to default wal_buffers being 8
    
    This hasn't been true since 9.1, when the default was changed to -1.
    Remove the reference completely, keeping the discussion of the parameter
    and it's shared memory effects on the config page.


 doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
index a3e91be4b89..8e05f927131 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
@@ -540,9 +540,7 @@
    from having to do writes.  On such systems
    one should increase the number of <acronym>WAL</acronym> buffers by
    modifying the configuration parameter <xref
-   linkend="guc-wal-buffers">.  The default number of <acronym>WAL</acronym>
-   buffers is 8.  Increasing this value will
-   correspondingly increase shared memory usage.  When
+   linkend="guc-wal-buffers">.  When
    <xref linkend="guc-full-page-writes"> is set and the system is very busy,
    setting this value higher will help smooth response times during the
    period immediately following each checkpoint.


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