Re: Performance Tuning Article

From: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>
To: Frank Wiles <frank(at)wiles(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance Tuning Article
Date: 2005-06-23 01:06:04
Message-ID: 20050623010604.GI7839@tobias
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[Frank Wiles - Wed at 09:52:27AM -0500]
> I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding
> performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring
> together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would appreciate any
> feedback, comments, and especially any technical corrections.

I did not read through the whole article, but I already have some comments;

work_mem was formerly sort_mem. As many of us still use pg7, you should
probably have a note about it.

There are already quite some short articles at the web about this issue, and
that was actually my starting point when I was assigned the task of tweaking
the database performance. I think diversity is a good thing, some of the
short articles was relatively outdated, others were not very well written.
And also - I still never had the chance to do proper benchmarking of the
impact of my changes in the configuration file, I just chose to trust some
of the advices when I saw almost the same advice repeated in several
articles.

I think we need some comprehensive chapter about this in the manual, with
plenty of pointers - or eventually some separate well-organized pages
telling about all known issues. It seems to me that many of the standard
tips here are repeating themselves over and over again.

--
Tobias Brox, +86-13521622905
Nordicbet, IT dept

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