Re: PG 8.3 and large shared buffer settings - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Aidan Van Dyk
Subject Re: PG 8.3 and large shared buffer settings
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Msg-id 20090925161542.GK586@oak.highrise.ca
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In response to Re: PG 8.3 and large shared buffer settings  (Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>)
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* Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> [090925 11:57]:
> That won't work well anyway because the postgres shared_buffers dos not cache things that are sequentially scanned
(ituses a ring buffer for each scan).  So, for any data that is only accessed by sequential scan, you're relying on the
OSand the disks.  If you access a table via index scan though, all its pages will go through shared_buffers. 

In older version too, or only since synchronized scans got in?

a.


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