From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: George Sexton <georges@mhsoftware.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: shared_buffers
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:23:00 -0600
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"George Sexton" <georges@mhsoftware.com> wrote:
> Could someone please explain what the role of shared buffers is?
This Wiki page might be useful to you:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server
The short answer (from that page) is:
"The shared_buffers configuration parameter determines how much
memory is dedicated to PostgreSQL use for caching data."
-Kevin
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