Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't think any test that we could build would be as useful as simply >> trying the different settings with an installation's real workload.
> Benchmarking the real workload isn't always so easy, and might be quite > time consuming to obtain meaningful values. The concern was about whether people might be missing an easy speedup of 2x or more. I don't think it'd be that hard to tell ;-) if one setting is an order of magnitude better than another for your workload. If there's not an obvious difference then you haven't wasted much effort checking. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]