Re: Performance Tuning

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: "Darryl W(dot) DeLao Jr(dot)" <ddelao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance Tuning
Date: 2006-02-17 20:06:52
Message-ID: 1140206812.22740.301.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:01, Darryl W. DeLao Jr. wrote:
> Running ver 7.3.10 in RHEL 3.0 ES. If I change shared buffers, dont i
> have to change max connections as well?

You should update to a newer version of PostgreSQL if performance is
important to you. 7.3 was ok, but 8.1 is light years ahead of it.

No, the shared_buffers has to be at least twice as big as the max
connections. It can be more than twice as big, that's just a minimum.

Read this:

http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html

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