Turns out someone had placed a second line further down in the file I
didn't realize was there... So it set it, then reset it.
Thanks,
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:53 AM
To: Hardwick, Joe
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Trouble getting effective_cache_size parameter to
take
"Hardwick, Joe" <Joe.Hardwick@fnis.com> writes:
> I've got a Postgres v8.2.4 server that we recently upped from 2GB RAM
> to 6GB. I added:
> effective_cache_size = 5120MB
> to the postgresql.conf file but when I restart the server and do a
> "show all" it always comes back with "1000MB". I can set it manually
> and it takes but for some reason it just seems to ignore it in the
config file.
Sure sounds to me like you're editing the wrong config file ...
regards, tom lane
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