Re: shared_buffers advice

[Dave Crooke <dcrooke@xxxxxxxxx>]

If, like me, you came from the Oracle world, you may be tempted to throw a ton of RAM at this. Don't. PG does not like it.

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *) shared_buffers is one of the _least_ important performance settings
> in postgresql.conf

Yes, and no.  It's usually REALLY helpful to make sure it's more than
8 or 24Megs.  But it doesn't generally need to be huge to make a
difference.

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