On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/7/12 4:59 PM, Peter van Hardenberg wrote: >> Per the thread from last month, I've updated the default >> random_page_cost on Heroku Postgres to reduce the expected cost of a >> random_page on all new databases. > > This is because Heroku uses AWS storage, which has fast seeks but poor > throughput compared to internal disk on a standard system, BTW. Also judging by the other thread, it might be something to stop closer to 1.2 to 1.4 or something. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance