By the way, can you please post a link to that thread? On 8/15/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
See the recent thread about how old rules of thumb for shared_buffers are now completely bunk. With 4G of memory, setting shared_buffers to 2G could easily be reasonable. The OP really needs to test several different values with their actual workload and see what works best.
