Re: Settings for fast restores

On 08/01/2018 09:11 AM, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/09/settings-for-fast-pgrestore.html
> <http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/09/settings-for-fast-pgrestore.html>
>
> shared_buffers = 1/2 of what you'd usually set
> maintenance_work_mem = 1GB-2GB
> wal_level = minimal
> full_page_writes = off
> wal_buffers = 64MB
> checkpoint_segments = 256 or higher
> max_wal_senders = 0
> wal_keep_segments = 0
>
> How many of these 4 year old setting recommendations are still valid
> for 9.6?
>
>
> They all look still valid to me. I personally also set fsync=off since I
> can always start over if the machine crashes and corrupts the data.

Right.  I didn't mention these, because they seem version-agnostic:

fsync = off
synchronous_commit = off
archive_mode = off
autovacuum = off
all activity logging settings disabled

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