Re: Query results caching? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Query results caching?
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Msg-id 20050822203129.GA16246@webserv.wug-glas.de
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In response to Re: Query results caching?  (Ben-Nes Yonatan <da@canaan.co.il>)
Responses Re: Query results caching?  (Ben-Nes Yonatan <da@canaan.co.il>)
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am  22.08.2005, um 22:13:49 +0200 mailte Ben-Nes Yonatan folgendes:
> I think that I was misunderstood, Ill make an example:

Okay:

> Lets say that im making the following query for the first time on the
> "motorcycles" table which got an index on the "manufacturer" field:
>
> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT manufacturer FROM motorcycles WHERE
> manufacturer='suzuki';
> .. Total runtime: 3139.587 ms

neither the DB nor the OS has the the table and index in the cache.

>
> Now im doing the same query again and i get a much faster result (cause of
> the "caching"): Total runtime: 332.53 ms

OS and DN has now the table and index in the cache.


>
> After both of those queries I drop the index and query the table again with
> the exact same query as before and now I receive: Total runtime: 216834.871
> ms

Without index -> DB make a seq-scan. Very slow, of cource.

>
> And for my last check I run the exact same query again (without creating
> the INDEX back again) and I get quite similar result to my third query:
> Total runtime: 209218.01 ms

Never mind. The table is too big for the cache.


> My problem is that (maybe I just dont understand something basic here...)
> the last 2 (also the second query but I dont care about that) queries were
> using the "cache" that was created after the first query (which had an
> INDEX) so none of them actually showed me what will happen if a client will
> do such a search (without an INDEX) for the first time.
>
> I want to delete that "caching" after I do the first 2 queries so my next
> queries will show me "real life results".

No problem: demount all RAM and send this to me ;-)


Regards, Andreas
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