2007/9/19, Nathan Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@xxxxxxxx>: > Hello - Several people kindly responded directly to me with some > specific suggestions for this, however the message was mistakenly > deleted and not in the archives. If you remember who you are and > wouldn't mind resending that would be fantastic! here you are, all posts from this thread are below. BTW, what happened to the archives? Nathan Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@xxxxxxxx> 10 August 2007 17:25 To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hello - Just installed 8.2.4 on a Solaris 9 box. It's an 8-way (15000 MHz sparc) with 32GB of ram. We don't know the exact table structure yet or access patterns, although the first thing that will be looked at is a Sesame triple store DB. I would expect that this DB will be more skewed to reads than writes. Based on this, are the out of the box configs pretty good or are there any recommended changes I should be making to start with? Thanks! -Nate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq Ben <bench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10 August 2007 18:00 To: Nathan Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@xxxxxxxx> Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The out-of-the-box configs are pretty awful for you. Read some list archives (from this list and pgsql-performance) and also take a look at http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html [Quoted text hidden] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10 August 2007 18:31 To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Nathan Wilhelmi wrote: > are the out of the box configs pretty good or are there any recommended > changes I should be making to start with? The out of the box configuration is wildly inappropriate for your system, and there are few examples of something appropriate to point you at--much of the information floating around is out of date for your class of hardware. See http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-5minute.htm for something current to get you started. That will lead you to additional resources you can drill into from there, and includes some disclaimers about what you should ignore in the guides that haven't been updated recently. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD [Quoted text hidden] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster