| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrus <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why pgAdmin III guru suggests VACUUM in 8.1 |
| Date: | 2005-11-28 20:59:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20051128205950.GW78939@pervasive.com |
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:56:58PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> No. autovacuum is turned ON by default in 8.1 XP
Hrm, interesting that it's different than on Unix.
> I read from the docs you mentioned that Postgres has low maintenance needs
> compared to other databases. So I'm expecting that there is no need to tune
> something.
Initial tuning != maintenance. Many of PostgreSQL's default settings are
extremely conservative and will benefit from being increased on almost
any hardware. There's extensive discussion of this to be found in the
pgsql-performance archives, but take a look at shared_buffers and
work_memory at a minimum.
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