[ar-jan]

Do you know if the differences in recommended settings between Web Application and Desktop Application are mainly about network-related aspects (latency etc.), or more about typical access patterns of web vs desktop? I'm thinking of the configuration for a remote PostgreSQL server, to be accessed from a local desktop application over the internet.

[taffer]

Desktop Application assumes that the server is running on the user's workstation and is very conservative in terms of memory usage to avoid interfering with other applications. Web Application, on the other hand, assumes that the server is running on a dedicated computer and has all memory for itself.