On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:45 +0100
Guido Neitzer <lists@event-s.net> wrote:
> > effective_cache_size = 82728 # typically 8KB each
> Hmm. I don't know what the real effect of this might be as the doc
> states:
>
> "This parameter has no effect on the size of shared memory allocated
> by PostgreSQL, nor does it reserve kernel disk cache; it is used
> only for estimation purposes."
This is a hint to the optimizer about how much of the database may
be in the OS level cache.
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