On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Erik Jones wrote:
> I'm just wondering what is considered the general wisdom on config
> setting for large pg_restore runs. I know to increase
> maintenance_work_mem and turn off autovacuum and stats collection.
> Shoule should checkpoint_segments and checkpoint_timeout be
> increased? Would twiddling shared_buffers help? What about
At least with 8.0 testing I did a while back, I found that bumping
checkpoint segments was the biggest benefit. I use 256 segments as a
matter of course now, even for normal operations.
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