Re: [GENERAL] Optimizations for busy DB??

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Brian wrote:

    One obvious thing might be to try to avoid having so many things
hitting the database.  I've found that often when people have that many
connections in use, there's a better way to do it.  This may not be the
case for you since I don't know your application, but the best database
optimizations I've put into place were in the application, having it avoid
hitting the database.

#
# We are running a Database that is having between 100-500 simultaneous
# accesses at any given time.  Are their any flags, switches or
# optimizations on the postgres level that can be done?  such as options
# passed to postgres etc?  We run 6.3.2, and start it like:
#
# su postgres -c '/usr/bin/postmaster -i -S -D/var/lib/pgsql
#
# Thanks for any help.
#
# Brian
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