On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:30 PM, raghu ram <raghuchennuru@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The CHECKPOINT command will do this for you.
>>
>>
>
> According to PostgreSQL documentation, whenever you execute "CHECKPOINT" in
> the database,it will flush the modified data files presented in the Shared
> Buffers retuned to the Disk.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-checkpoint.html
> Is this clears the entire shared memory cache and same time,if i execute
> fresh SQL statement, Data will be retuned from disk??
No, but then you'd need to flush OS buffers and all disk caches as
well to make that effective.
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