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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances 
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Perhaps make them emit a WARNING at server start or something.

I concur with Greg Stark's earlier comment that this is all
overreaction.  Let's just fix the misleading comment in the
documentation and leave it at that.

			regards, tom lane