Re: Running PostgreSQL as fast as possible no matter the consequences

From: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
To: A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Running PostgreSQL as fast as possible no matter the consequences
Date: 2010-11-05 11:36:34
Message-ID: AANLkTi=9CL-O=D_eiCxx7R=1zkGhimAotnGgB_WsvC2-@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:32, A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I was just thinking about the case where I will have almost 100%
> selects, but still needs something better than a plain key-value
> storage so I can do some sql queries.
> The server will just boot, load data, run,  hopefully not crash but if
> it would, just start over with load and run.

If you want fast read queries then changing
fsync/full_page_writes/synchronous_commit won't help you.

Just follow the regular tuning guide. shared_buffers,
effective_cache_size, work_mem, default_statistics_target can make a
difference.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server

Regards,
Marti

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