Re: Looking for tips

From: Oliver Crosby <ryusei(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Looking for tips
Date: 2005-07-19 20:08:11
Message-ID: 1efd553a0507191308219a098b@mail.gmail.com
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> We had low resource utilization and poor throughput on inserts of
> thousands of rows within a single database transaction. There were a
> lot of configuration parameters we changed, but the one which helped the
> most was wal_buffers -- we wound up setting it to 1000. This may be
> higher than it needs to be, but when we got to something which ran well,
> we stopped tinkering. The default value clearly caused a bottleneck.

I just tried wal_buffers = 1000, sort_mem at 10% and
effective_cache_size at 75%.
The performance refuses to budge.. I guess that's as good as it'll go?

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