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Re: work_mem and shared_buffers



On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:12 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Note that my best time was at around 16 Meg work_mem.  This data set
> is MUCH bigger than 16 Meg, it's around 300-400 Meg.  But work_mem
> optimized out at 16 Meg.  Btw, I tried it going as high as 768 Meg,
> and it was still slower than 16M.

Remember that what you have shown is that for *this* dataset 16Mb is the
optimum value. It is not a recommended value for all cases.

-- 
  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com




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