On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:31 PM, MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any other votes?
>
> +1
> Some customers requested:
>
> 1. fill the database cache with frequently accessed data before starting or
> resuming service for their users (for the first time or after maintenance
> work), so that they can provide steady and predictable performance.
>
> 2. pin some (reference or master) data in the database cache not to be
> evicted from the cache (like Oracle's KEEP buffer?), for the same reason as
> 1.
>
> I'd love such useful feature like pg_rewarm to be included in core. I hope
> such nice features won't be rejected just because there are already similar
> external tools.
For the record, the name of the tool is pg_PREwarm, not pg_rewarm.
The subject line of this thread is a typo.
Sounds like it might be worth dusting the patch off again...
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