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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -3194,16 +3194,8 @@ include 'filename'
memory allocated by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, nor
does it reserve kernel disk cache; it is used only for estimation
purposes. The system also does not assume data remains in
- the disk cache between queries.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If <varname>effective_cache_size</> is set to -1, which is the
- default, the value is replaced by an automatically selected value,
- currently four times the size of <xref linkend="guc-shared-buffers">.
- For recommended settings of <varname>shared_buffers</>, this should
- give reasonable results if this database cluster can use most of the
- memory on the server.
+ the disk cache between queries. The default is 128 megabytes
+ (<literal>128MB</>).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>