Re: MySQL versus Postgres

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, masivakumar(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL versus Postgres
Date: 2010-08-13 00:11:38
Message-ID: 4C648DBA.7090809@2ndquadrant.com
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> What's the problem with 18GB shared_buffers exactly

It's slower than smaller numbers, and if you actually dirty a
significant portion of it you can have a checkpoint that takes hours to
sync, completely trashing system responsiveness for a good portion of it.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.us

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