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To: "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>,
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:07:19 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> May I ask you why you set max_prepared_transactions to 450, while 
>> you're apparently not using prepared transactions, according to this 
>> quote:

> Yep.. one of the things that we didn't revert back and got strayed out 
> there.

There were quite a few settings in that list that looked like random
experimentation rather than recommendable good practice to me.

			regards, tom lane