Re: Postgresql Caching - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgresql Caching
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Msg-id 25440.1160942108@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Postgresql Caching  (Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com>)
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Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com> writes:
> mark@mark.mielke.cc wrote:
>> None of this avoids the cost of query planning, or query execution.

> No but you can avoid costly disk access and still have the postgres 
> level of integrity and integration that memcached doesn't offer.

If you're just trying to cache data, it's not clear what you are doing
that the shared buffer cache and/or kernel-level disk cache doesn't
do already.
        regards, tom lane


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