Re: postgresql shared buffers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: postgresql shared buffers
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Msg-id 20060908165318.GX5892@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: postgresql shared buffers  (Praveen Kumar N <praveen_n@students.iiit.net>)
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Praveen Kumar N wrote:
> 
> one more doubt.in the following example we dont need sort right.But in 
> this case also relations were scanned sequentially one by one.

In this case it's because the result from one seqscan was materialized.

> So is it the 
> case that any relation is accessed only once from database while executing 
> a given query?

Not in general -- you'll see that behavior only in particular cases.

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