Re: PG8.1 - Config file check

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:11:04PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> I have upped the following parameters to help speed up our
> conversions, is there any issues leaving them set to these values
> after our conversion to 8.1?
> maintenance_work_mem to 1GB (1048576)
> checkpoint_segements to 256
> checkpoint_timeout to 1800 seconds (30 minutes)

During the conversion you might want to turn fsync off. AFAIK it's safe
to do that so long as you get a clean shutdown and then do a

sync; sync; sync

Don't run that way in production though...
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