Re: Questions regarding contrib/tsearch

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Questions regarding contrib/tsearch
Date: 2002-08-02 15:47:03
Message-ID: 20020802114703.E8966@mail.libertyrms.com
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:39:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> If the database is being accessed heavily then it will tend to remain
> swapped in; you don't have to (and really can't) do anything to tweak
> the kernel-level and Postgres-level algorithms that determine this.
> What you want is to ensure there's enough RAM to hold not only all the
> database hotspots, but also all the other programs and working data
> that the server machine will be running.

I was wondering: is there an in-principle reason that there isn't any
mechanism for locking a table in memory, or is it just that no-one
has ever done it?

A

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