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Re: Postgres scalability and performance on windows



On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:45 +0100
Guido Neitzer <lists(at)event-s(dot)net> wrote:

> > effective_cache_size = 82728                  # typically 8KB each
> Hmm. I don't know what the real effect of this might be as the doc  
> states:
> 
> "This parameter has no effect on the size of shared memory allocated  
> by PostgreSQL, nor does it reserve kernel disk cache; it is used
> only for estimation purposes."

   This is a hint to the optimizer about how much of the database may
   be in the OS level cache.  

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   Frank Wiles <frank(at)wiles(dot)org>
   http://www.wiles.org
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