Re: Postgres Performance

Dear Hubert,

I have mistaken written 7.0 instead of 7.3, I am getting more than 2000 hits
daily, can u suggest the best configuration. Mean while I am trying to
migrate it to 8.3.1

Regards
aftab

-----Original Message-----
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski [mailto:depesz@depesz.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:27 PM
To: Aftab Alam
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Postgres Performance

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:12:43PM +0530, Aftab Alam wrote:
>             I am using postgres 7.0 with linux with 15 GB of database & 3
gb of RAM.
> Can anyone suggest what is the best setting for postgres. I am using
postgres as web db.

the best setting would be to upgrade.
7.0 was released in 2000, and is practically abandoned. the oldest
supported version at the moment is 7.4, but i would strongly suggest to
try to move to newest versions - like 8.3.1

regards,

hubert lubaczewski

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