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Re: hundreds of schema vs hundreds of databases



Ron Johnson wrote:
> Does PG set up buffers at the postmaster level or the database level?
> 
> If at the database level, then you'll be allocating memory to 
> databases that might not be in use at any one time, thus wasting it. 
>   One database buffer pool would make more efficient use of RAM.

Shared memory is allocated at the cluster level.
See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-resource.ht
ml#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-MEMORY

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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