Re: 7 hrs for a pg_restore?

[Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>]

On 19-Feb-08, at 2:35 PM, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 February 2008 14:28:54 Dave Cramer wrote:
> > shared buffers is *way* too small as is effective cache
> > set them to 2G/6G respectively.
> >
> > Dave
>
> pardon my ignorance, but is this in the context of a restore only?  
> or 'in
> general'?

This is the "generally accepted" starting point for a pg db for  
production.

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