Installing pg_buffercache (was Re: shared_buffers on Big RAM systems)

On 12/13/2018 08:25 PM, Rene Romero Benavides wrote:
> This topic seems to be always open to discussion. In my opinion, it 
> depends on how big your work dataset is, there's no use in sizing 
> shared_buffers beyond that size. I think, the most reasonable thing is 
> analyzing each case as proposed here:
> https://www.keithf4.com/a-large-database-does-not-mean-large-shared_buffers/

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbuffercache.html

Is this an extension or a shared preload library?  The documentation doesn't 
specify.

Thanks

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