On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote: > *) shared_buffers is one of the _least_ important performance settings > in postgresql.conf
Yes, and no. It's usually REALLY helpful to make sure it's more than 8 or 24Megs. But it doesn't generally need to be huge to make a difference.