"vinita bansal" <sagivini@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Do these settings seem fine or I am making some mistake. These settings when > used with Postgres 7.4 gave me good results but they don't seem to work with > Postgres 8.0. Am I missing out on something?? Define "don't seem to work", please. Offhand the only thing that comes to mind is that the GEQO parameters changed meaning a bit in 8.0; you shouldn't blindly set geqo_effort the same as you used to. But with geqo_threshold so high it may not matter ... do you even have any queries with more than 25 tables? Also, it's just plain bizarre to have work_mem larger than maintenance_work_mem; I cannot imagine any sane reason to do that. Are you sure that work_mem = 128M is really a safe setting on your hardware? If you have a good number of clients all concurrently doing complicated queries, you could easily find yourself pushed into swapping. I concur with Mike's thought that shared_buffers = 100000 is on the high side. wal_buffers = 1000 strikes me as a waste of RAM too; do you have any proof that it helps to set it above 10? Do you really think it's a good idea to disable the bgwriter? Especially with such a long intercheckpoint time? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq