There is some information on www.varlena.com I think it may have been Scott who wrote the article that I'm thinking about. There is other information about, your best bet may be google.
Regards Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Bensend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] VARCHAR -vs- CHAR: huge performance difference? > > > The problem here isn't pg_autovacuum, but too small of settings for > > fsm. I've run multi-day tests where autovacuum kept the size of the > > database pretty much the same with 200+ updates a second going on. > > Hi Scott, > > Could you explain the fsm a little more? I have done _no_ tuning on > my database simply because I don't know how, but I would be interested > to hear your recommendations for the fsm settings. > > Thanks! > > Benny > > > -- > "Oh, the Jedis are going to feel this one!" -- Professor Farnsworth, > "Futurama" > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org