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From: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:28:45 -0400
Message-ID: <1065637725.3419.30.camel@tokyo> (raw)
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On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:05, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hmmm ... both, I think.   The Install Docs should have:
> 
> "Here are the top # things you will want to adjust in your PostgreSQL.conf:
> 1) Shared_buffers <link>
> 2) Sort_mem <link>
> 3) effective_cache_size <link>
> 4) random_page_cost <link>
> 5) Fsync <link>
> etc."

> Barring an objection, I'll get to work on this.

I think this kind of information belongs in the documentation proper,
not in the installation instructions. I think you should put this kind
of tuning information in the "Performance Tips" chapter, and include a
pointer to it in the installation instructions.

-Neil

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