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.
from having to do writes. On such systems
one should increase the number of
WAL buffers by
modifying the configuration parameter
- linkend="guc-wal-buffers">. The default number of
WAL
- buffers is 8. Increasing this value will
- correspondingly increase shared memory usage. When
+ linkend="guc-wal-buffers">. When
is set and the system is very busy,
setting this value higher will help smooth response times during the
period immediately following each checkpoint.