Re: Making the most of memory? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: Making the most of memory?
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In response to Re: Making the most of memory?  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Jan 24, 2008 1:01 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> > I'll
give you a little hint about postgresql.conf...tuning shared
> buffers rarely has a huge impact on performance...the o/s will

oops. i meant to say the o/s will cache the files just fine...the
setting that _does_ affect query performance is work_mem, but this
applies to queries on a case by case basis.

merlin

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