Re: MySQL versus Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: MySQL versus Postgres
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Msg-id 20100813.093835.16668689.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: MySQL versus Postgres  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: MySQL versus Postgres
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> 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.

So how much is the reasonal upper limit of shared_buffers at this
point? If it's obvious, should we disable or warn to use more than
that number?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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