Re: postgresql.conf

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql.conf
Date: 2003-07-30 17:19:21
Message-ID: 200307301019.21870.josh@agliodbs.com
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Scott,

> I'm guessing OLTP needs things like FSM cranked up,
> OLAP (a for analytical) needs more shared buffers and sort memory
> Webserver might be better served just slightly higher values than default
> but well under those of either OLTP or OLAP...

Yes. Take sort_mem for example:
OLTP_SM 1024
OLTP_LM 2048
OLAP_SM 4096
OLAP_LM 16384
WWW_SM 512
WWW_LM 1024
Workstation 1024

The basic idea is:
More RAM => more sort_mem
More concurrent queries => less sort_mem
Larger data sets => more sort_mem
Lots of grouped aggregates => more sort_mem

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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