Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances
Date: 2007-12-27 13:20:03
Message-ID: 20071227132002.GC5709@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:

> Currently the docs say that --enable-cassert
>
> Enables <firstterm>assertion</> checks in the server, which test for
> many <quote>cannot happen</> conditions. This is invaluable for
> code development purposes, but the tests slow things down a little.
>
> Maybe we ought to put that more strongly --- s/a little/significantly/,
> perhaps?

I don't think it will make any difference, because people don't read
configure documentation. They read configure --help.

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