On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Filip Rembiałkowski <plk.zu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alex Vinnik <alvinni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It sure turned out that default settings are not a good fit. >> > > do you know pgtune? > it's a good tool for starters, if you want a fast postgres and don't > really want to learn what's behind the scenes. > Yeah.. I came across pgtune but noticed that latest version dated 2009-10-29 http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000416 which is kind of outdated. Tar file has settings for pg 8.3. Is still relevant? > > random_page_cost=1 might be not what you really want. > it would mean that random reads are as fast as as sequential reads, which > probably is true only for SSD > What randon_page_cost would be more appropriate for EC2 EBS Provisioned volume that can handle 2,000 IOPS? > > > > Filip > >
