Re: PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of
> postgresql against other databases.
>
> http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/
>
> More on Josh Berkus's blog:
>
> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/postgresql-publishes-first-real-benchmark-17470

That's really exciting news!

I'm sure you spent a lot of time tweaking the settings, so let me ask
you something topical:

How did you end up with the bgwriter settings you used? Did you
experiment with different values? How much difference did it make?

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