Re: FSM - per database or per installation? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Craig James wrote:
> Are the FSM parameters for each database, or the entire Postgres
> system?  In other words, if I have 100 databases, do I need to increase
> max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations by a factor of 100, or keep them the
> same as if I just have one database?
>
> I suspect they're per-database, i.e. as I add databases, I don't have to
> increase the FSM parameters, but the documentation isn't 100% clear on
> this point.

It's per cluster, ie *not* per-database.

The parameter is gone in 8.4, BTW.

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