Re: Caching of Queries

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Caching of Queries
Date: 2004-10-02 22:50:58
Message-ID: 200410021550.58484.josh@agliodbs.com
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William,

> Just my 2 cents on this whole issue. I would lean towards having result
> caching in pgpool versus the main backend. I want every ounce of memory
> on a database server devoted to the database. Caching results would
> double the effect of cache flushing ... ie, now both the results and the
> pages used to build the results are in memory pushing out other stuff to
> disk that may be just as important.
>
> If it was in pgpool or something similar, I could devote a separate
> machine just for caching results leaving the db server untouched.

Oddly, Joe Conway just mentioned the same idea to me.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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