Re: The shared buffers challenge - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Claudio Freire
Subject Re: The shared buffers challenge
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Msg-id BANLkTim6zqdbLSX4wnO35rY33nLiR9XC-g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: The shared buffers challenge  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: The shared buffers challenge  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> The point is what we can prove, because going through the
> motions of doing that is useful.

Exactly, and whatever you can "prove" will be workload-dependant.
So you can't prove anything "generally", since no single setting is
best for all.

> You are also totally missing my
> other thrust, which is that future changes to how things work could
> change the dynamics of .conf configuration

Nope, I'm not missing it, simply not commenting on it.

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