While there are some docs on it, I decided to write about it, in perhaps more accessible language – not as a developer, but as PostgreSQL user. Some parts (quite large parts) were described in one of my earlier posts, but I'll try to concentrate on W…
After loooong pause, adding next (well, second) post to the “series“. This time, I'd like to describe how logging works. And I don't mean binary logging (WAL), but the log for us, humans, to read. Before I will go to the postgresql.conf options, let…
1 Set max_connections to three times the number of processor cores on the server. Include virtual (hyperthreading) cores. Set shared_buffers to 4GB for servers with up to 64 GB of RAM. Use 8GB for systems with more than 64 GB of RA…