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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Planner-related settings

Effective cache size (effective_cache_size) should be set to an estimate of how much memory is available for disk caching in the operating system, and within the database, after taking into account what's used by the operating system and other applications. This value for a dedicated postgres server is around 50% to 70% of the total RAM.

Also, you could play with a planner setting, such as random_page_cost, to favor an Index Scan over sequential scans. The random_page_cost setting's default value is 4.0. In high-end SAN/NAS technologies, you could set this value to 3, and for SSD, you could use a random page cost of 1.5 to 2.5. The preceding list of parameters is minimal; in reality, you need to also configure the ...

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ISBN: 9781789535464