Re: [GENERAL] about effective_cache_size

2010-02-18 Thread Greg Smith
AI Rumman wrote: * What is the difference between shared_buffers and effective_cache_size? This whole topic is covered at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server and the additional references that document leads to. * If I set effective cache size 1GB for db1 and 500 MB

Re: [GENERAL] about effective_cache_size

2010-02-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to AI Rumman : > * What is the difference between shared_buffers and effective_cache_size? effective_cache_size: Sets the planner's assumption about the effective size of the disk cache that is available to a single query. This parameter has no effect on the size of shared memory alloc

[GENERAL] about effective_cache_size

2010-02-18 Thread AI Rumman
* What is the difference between shared_buffers and effective_cache_size? * If I set effective cache size 1GB for db1 and 500 MB for db2, then what will happen to the system memory usage? Anyone please tell me.