On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:13:26PM -0700, Brian Wipf wrote: > It certainly is unfortunate if Guido's right and this is an upper > limit for OS X. The performance benefit of having high shared_buffers > on our mostly read database is remarkable. Got any data about that you can share? People have been wondering about cases where drastically increasing shared_buffers makes a difference. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)