Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances
Date
Msg-id 20071227132002.GC5709@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Tom Lane escribió:

> Currently the docs say that --enable-cassert
>
>          Enables <firstterm>assertion</> checks in the server, which test for
>          many <quote>cannot happen</> conditions.  This is invaluable for
>          code development purposes, but the tests slow things down a little.
>
> Maybe we ought to put that more strongly --- s/a little/significantly/,
> perhaps?

I don't think it will make any difference, because people don't read
configure documentation.  They read configure --help.

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