Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes: > The bigint "id" column in "mytbl" is populated from a sequence, and so is > monotonically increasing: the newest records will have the biggest id > values. > The table also has a bytea column that averages about 100KB.
> Loading 200K rows is more than 200MB. I expected this "prewarm" statement > to take much longer than 1/2 second. Am I still in the dark ages of > computer speed, or is this statement not doing what I hope it's doing?
It's not pulling in the TOAST storage where the bytea column lives. (pg_prewarm wouldn't have either, without special pushups.)
Puzzling, since I ran "PERFORM *". What if I explicitly mentioned the bytea column's name?