"George Sexton" <geor...@mhsoftware.com> 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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