Increase size of shared memory for pg_commit_ts

Like 5364b357fb11 did for pg_commit, change the formula used to
determine number of pg_commit_ts buffers, which helps performance with
larger servers.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210115220744.GA24457@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/commit_ts.c b/src/backend/access/transam/commit_ts.c
index 42ea8e53f2c3f81a3cd93aad061856fd63dfb341..cbbe19fea83a6dc9665f75ba1be2c4e9b19a1014 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/commit_ts.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/commit_ts.c
@@ -508,13 +508,14 @@ pg_xact_commit_timestamp_origin(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 /*
  * Number of shared CommitTS buffers.
  *
- * We use a very similar logic as for the number of CLOG buffers; see comments
- * in CLOGShmemBuffers.
+ * We use a very similar logic as for the number of CLOG buffers (except we
+ * scale up twice as fast with shared buffers, and the maximum is twice as
+ * high); see comments in CLOGShmemBuffers.
  */
 Size
 CommitTsShmemBuffers(void)
 {
-   return Min(16, Max(4, NBuffers / 1024));
+   return Min(256, Max(4, NBuffers / 256));
 }
 
 /*