On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Maciek Sakrejda <msakrejda(at)truviso(dot)com> wrote:
> Another +1. While I understand that this is not simple, many users
> will not look outside of standard docs, especially when first
> evaluating PostgreSQL. Merlin is right that the current wording does
> not really mention a down side to cranking shared_buffers on a system
> with plenty of RAM.
If you read the whole docs it does.
If you read caching, checkpoints, WAL, all of it, you can connect the dots.
It isn't easy, but database management isn't easy.