"George Sexton" <[email protected]> wrote: > Could someone please explain what the role of shared buffers is? This Wiki page might be useful to you: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server The short answer (from that page) is: "The shared_buffers configuration parameter determines how much memory is dedicated to PostgreSQL use for caching data." -Kevin
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