Reid,
There are a few very valuable tuning documents that are part of the
established PostgreSQL-related literature. You don't mention which
version of postgres you'll be running, but here are the documents
you'll find useful:
postgresql.conf
7.4:
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/
annotated_conf_e.html
8.0: http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html
general tuning
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html
-tfo
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On Mar 24, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
> Using information found on the web, I've come up with some
> configuration and tuning parameters for a server/db that we will be
> implementing. I was wondering if I could generate some feedback as to
> configuration and tuning so that I could compare my estimations with
> those of others.
>
> Host is AIX 5.1 with 4 cpu's and 4 GB ram. Postgresql will be sharing
> this machine with other processes. Storage is an EMC storage array.
> The DB itself is very simple. Two tables, one with 40-45 columns (
> largest column will likely contain no more than 32 chars of data ),
> the other with less than 5 columns ( largest column will contain no
> more than 20 chars data ). Expected transactions will be along the
> order of ~600K +- 100K inserts and ~600K +-200K updates per week.
>
> Thanks
>
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