Re: preloading indexes - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: preloading indexes
Date
Msg-id 16198.1099511717@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to preloading indexes  (<stuff@opensourceonline.com>)
List pgsql-performance
<stuff@opensourceonline.com> writes:
> I am working with some pretty convoluted queries that work very slowly the
> first time they're called but perform fine on the second call. I am fairly
> certain that these differences are due to the caching. Can someone point me
> in a direction that would allow me to pre-cache the critical indexes?

Buy more RAM.  Also check your shared_buffers setting (but realize that
more is not necessarily better).

            regards, tom lane

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