Re: effective_cache_size X shared_buffer

[Patrick B <patrickbakerbr@xxxxxxxxx>]

2017-04-03 13:23 GMT+12:00 Patrick B <patrickbakerbr@xxxxxxxxx>:

Hi guys.

I'm thinking about increasing the query cache for my PG 9.2 server.

I've got a project happening, which is doing lots and lots of writes and reads during the night, and in the morning I see PG cache warming up again, as all the cache "was used" by those write and read tasks.

So my environment gets very slow for a few hours, until the queries used on a daily basis go to the cache.

Question:

Should I increase effective_cache_size or shared_buffer? What's the difference between them?

Thanks

Patrick

Can I also increase shared_buffer on my slave only? Would that make any difference if using selects on the slave? Or this parameter must be the same across all servers (Master/slaves) ?

Thanks

P.