"Hardwick, Joe" <Joe(dot)Hardwick(at)fnis(dot)com> writes:
> I've got a Postgres v8.2.4 server that we recently upped from 2GB RAM to
> 6GB. I added:
> effective_cache_size = 5120MB
> to the postgresql.conf file but when I restart the server and do a "show
> all" it always comes back with "1000MB". I can set it manually and it
> takes but for some reason it just seems to ignore it in the config file.
Sure sounds to me like you're editing the wrong config file ...
regards, tom lane