Daulat Ram wrote:
> I want to know about the working and importance of shared_buffers in Postgresql?
> is it similar to the oracle database buffer cache?
Yes, exactly.
The main difference is that PostgreSQL uses buffered I/O, while Oracle usually
uses direct I/O.
Usually you start with shared_buffers being the minimum of a quarter of the
available RAM and 8 GB.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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