By the way, can you please post a link to that thread?
On 8/15/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
> See the recent thread about how old rules of thumb for shared_buffers
> are now completely bunk. With 4G of memory, setting shared_buffers to 2G
> could easily be reasonable. The OP really needs to test several
> different values with their actual workload and see what works best.