Update documentation about shared memory sizing to reflect current

reality.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index e346ece23ca9a0598dbfdff1964eea824700d7a6..3d34835ea158d08d7246af594b2bf9894821d23e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
         buffers is only a buffer descriptor, or about 64 bytes, per
         increment in temp_buffers.  However if a buffer is
         actually used an additional 8192 bytes will be consumed for it
-        (or in general BLCKSZ bytes).
+        (or in general, BLCKSZ bytes).
        
       
      
@@ -1183,6 +1183,14 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
         This option can only be set at server start.
        
 
+       
+        If you are not using prepared transactions, this parameter may as
+        well be set to zero.  If you are using them, you will probably
+        want max_prepared_transactions to be at least
+        as large as , to avoid unwanted
+        failures at the prepare step.
+       
+
        
         Increasing this parameter may cause PostgreSQL
         to request more System V shared
@@ -1267,6 +1275,32 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
      
      Free Space Map
 
+     
+      free space map
+     
+
+     
+      These parameters control the size of the shared free space
+      map, which tracks the locations of unused space in the database.
+      An undersized free space map may cause the database to consume
+      increasing amounts of disk space over time, because free space that
+      is not in the map cannot be re-used; instead PostgreSQL
+      will request more disk space from the operating system when it needs
+      to store new data.
+      The last few lines displayed by a database-wide VACUUM VERBOSE 
+      command can help in determining if the current settings are adequate.
+      A NOTICE message is also printed during such an operation
+      if the current settings are too low.
+     
+
+     
+      Increasing these parameters may cause PostgreSQL
+      to request more System V shared
+      memory than your operating system's default configuration
+      allows. See  for information on how to
+      adjust those parameters, if necessary.
+     
+
      
      
       max_fsm_pages (integer)
@@ -1279,10 +1313,6 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
         be tracked in the shared free-space map.  Six bytes of shared memory
         are consumed for each page slot.  This setting must be more than
         16 * max_fsm_relations.  The default is 20000.
-        The last few lines of a database-wide VACUUM VERBOSE 
-        can help in determining if the the default setting is suitable.  
-        A NOTICE message is also printed during such an operation
-        if the current setting is too low.
         This option can only be set at server start.
        
       
@@ -1297,12 +1327,8 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
        
         Sets the maximum number of relations (tables and indexes) for which
         free space will be tracked in the shared free-space map.  Roughly
-        fifty bytes of shared memory are consumed for each slot.
+        seventy bytes of shared memory are consumed for each slot.
         The default is 1000.
-        The last few lines of a database-wide VACUUM VERBOSE
-        can help in determining if the the default setting is suitable.  
-        A NOTICE message is also printed during such an operation
-        if the current setting is too low.
         This option can only be set at server start.
        
       
@@ -1804,9 +1830,18 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
        
         Number of disk-page buffers allocated in shared memory for WAL data.
         The default is 8.  The setting need only be large enough to hold
-        the amount of WAL data generated by one typical transaction.
+        the amount of WAL data generated by one typical transaction, since
+        the data is flushed to disk at every transaction commit.
         This option can only be set at server start.
        
+
+       
+        Increasing this parameter may cause PostgreSQL
+        to request more System V shared
+        memory than your operating system's default configuration
+        allows. See  for information on how to
+        adjust those parameters, if necessary.
+       
       
      
                 
@@ -3952,9 +3987,11 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
       
       
        
-        The shared lock table is sized on the assumption that at most
+        The shared lock table is created with room to describe locks on
         max_locks_per_transaction *
-        max_connections distinct objects will need to
+        ( +
+        ) objects;
+        hence, no more than this many distinct objects can
         be locked at any one time. (Thus, this parameter's name may be
         confusing: it is not a hard limit on the number of locks taken
         by any one transaction, but rather a maximum average value.)
@@ -3963,6 +4000,14 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
         have clients that touch many different tables in a single
         transaction. This option can only be set at server start.
        
+
+       
+        Increasing this parameter may cause PostgreSQL
+        to request more System V shared
+        memory than your operating system's default configuration
+        allows. See  for information on how to
+        adjust those parameters, if necessary.
+       
       
      
 
@@ -4653,9 +4698,10 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
     relevant for PostgreSQL). Almost all modern
     operating systems provide these features, but not all of them have
     them turned on or sufficiently sized by default, especially systems
-    with BSD heritage. (For the QNX and
-    BeOS ports, PostgreSQL
-    provides its own replacement implementation of these facilities.)
+    with BSD heritage. (For the Windows,
+    QNX and BeOS
+    ports, PostgreSQL provides its own replacement
+    implementation of these facilities.)
    
 
    
@@ -4695,8 +4741,7 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
       
        SHMMAX
        Maximum size of shared memory segment (bytes)
-       250 kB + 8.2 kB *  +
-       14.2 kB *  up to infinity
+       at least several megabytes (see text)
       
 
       
@@ -4764,14 +4809,17 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
     bytes, of a shared memory segment. If you get an error message from
     shmget like Invalid argument, it is
     likely that this limit has been exceeded. The size of the required
-    shared memory segment varies both with the number of requested
-    buffers (-B option) and the number of allowed connections
-    (-N option), although the former is the most significant.
-    (You can, as a temporary solution, lower these settings to eliminate
-    the failure.) As a rough approximation, you can estimate the
-    required segment size as suggested in 
-    linkend="sysvipc-parameters">.  Any error message you might get will
-    contain the size of the failed allocation request.
+    shared memory segment varies depending on several
+    PostgreSQL configuration parameters, as shown in
+    .
+    You can, as a temporary solution, lower some of those settings to
+    avoid the failure.  As a rough approximation, you can estimate the
+    required segment size as 500 kB plus the variable amounts shown in
+    the table.  (Any error message you might get will include the exact
+    size of the failed allocation request.)  While it is possible to get
+    PostgreSQL to run with SHMMAX as small as
+    1 MB, you need at least 4 MB for acceptable performance, and desirable
+    settings are in the tens of megabytes.
    
 
    
@@ -4785,7 +4833,7 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
    
     Less likely to cause problems is the minimum size for shared
     memory segments (SHMMIN), which should be at most
-    approximately 256 kB for PostgreSQL (it is
+    approximately 500 kB for PostgreSQL (it is
     usually just 1). The maximum number of segments system-wide
     (SHMMNI) or per-process (SHMSEG) are unlikely
     to cause a problem unless your system has them set to zero.
@@ -4793,8 +4841,8 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
 
    
     PostgreSQL uses one semaphore per allowed connection
-    (<option>-N option), in sets of 16.  Each such set will also
-    contain a 17th semaphore which contains a magic
+    (<xref linkend="guc-max-connections">), in sets of 16.  Each such set will
+    also contain a 17th semaphore which contains a magic
     number, to detect collision with semaphore sets used by
     other applications. The maximum number of semaphores in the system
     is set by SEMMNS, which consequently must be at least
@@ -4834,6 +4882,7 @@ $ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'
     for PostgreSQL.
    
 
+
     
 
      
@@ -5172,6 +5221,59 @@ set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=32
      
 
     
+
+
+   
+    Configuration parameters affecting</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s shared memory usage</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <tgroup cols="2"></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <thead></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>Name</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>Approximate multiplier (bytes per increment)</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </thead></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <tbody></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-max-connections"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>400 (but see also <varname>max_locks_per_transaction</>)</entry></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-max-prepared-transactions"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>600 (but see also <varname>max_locks_per_transaction</>)</entry></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-max-locks-per-transaction"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>220 * (<xref linkend="guc-max-connections"> +</div>
<div class="diff add">+        <xref linkend="guc-max-prepared-transactions">)</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-shared-buffers"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>8300</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-wal-buffers"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>8200</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-max-fsm-relations"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>70</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry><xref linkend="guc-max-fsm-pages"></></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <entry>6</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </tbody></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </tgroup></div>
<div class="diff add">+   </table></div>
<div class="diff ctx">   </sect2></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> #listen_addresses = 'localhost'        # what IP interface(s) to listen on; </div>
<div class="diff ctx">                    # defaults to localhost, '*' = any</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #port = 5432</div>
<div class="diff rem">-#max_connections = 100         # note: increasing max_connections costs</div>
<div class="diff rem">-                   # about 500 bytes of shared memory per </div>
<div class="diff rem">-                   # connection slot, in addition to costs</div>
<div class="diff rem">-                   # from shared_buffers and </div>
<div class="diff rem">-                   # max_locks_per_transaction.</div>
<div class="diff add">+#max_connections = 100</div>
<div class="diff add">+# note: increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory per </div>
<div class="diff add">+# connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).  You</div>
<div class="diff add">+# might also need to raise shared_buffers to support more connections.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #superuser_reserved_connections = 2</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #unix_socket_directory = ''</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #unix_socket_group = ''</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> #shared_buffers = 1000         # min 16 or max_connections*2, 8KB each</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #temp_buffers = 1000           # min 100, 8KB each</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #max_prepared_transactions = 5     # can be 0 or more</div>
<div class="diff add">+# note: increasing max_prepared_transactions costs ~600 bytes of shared memory</div>
<div class="diff add">+# per transaction slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #work_mem = 1024           # min 64, size in KB</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #maintenance_work_mem = 16384      # min 1024, size in KB</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #max_stack_depth = 2048            # min 100, size in KB</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> # - Free Space Map -</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #max_fsm_pages = 20000         # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each</div>
<div class="diff rem">-#max_fsm_relations = 1000      # min 100, ~<span class="marked">5</span>0 bytes each</div>
<div class="diff add">+#max_fsm_relations = 1000      # min 100, ~<span class="marked">7</span>0 bytes each</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> # - Kernel Resource Usage -</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #deadlock_timeout = 1000       # in milliseconds</div>
<div class="diff rem">-#max_locks_per_transaction = 64        # min 10, ~200*max_connections </div>
<div class="diff rem">-                   # bytes each</div>
<div class="diff add">+#max_locks_per_transaction = 64        # min 10</div>
<div class="diff add">+# note: each lock table slot uses ~220 bytes of shared memory, and there are</div>
<div class="diff add">+# max_locks_per_transaction * (max_connections + max_prepared_transactions)</div>
<div class="diff add">+# lock table slots.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> #---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
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