Proposal : For Auto-Prewarm.

# pg_autoprewarm.

This a PostgreSQL contrib module which automatically dump all of the
blocknums
present in buffer pool at the time of server shutdown(smart and fast mode
only,
to be enhanced to dump at regular interval.) and load these blocks when
server restarts.

Design:
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We have created a BG Worker Auto Pre-warmer which during shutdown dumps all
the
blocknum in buffer pool in sorted order.
Format of each entry is
<DatabaseId,TableSpaceId,RelationId,Forknum,BlockNum>.
Auto Pre-warmer is started as soon as the postmaster is started we do not
wait
for recovery to finish and database to reach a consistent state. If there
is a
"dump_file" to load we start loading each block entry to buffer pool until
there is a free buffer. This way we do not replace any new blocks which was
loaded either by recovery process or querying clients. Then it waits until
it receives
SIGTERM to dump the block information in buffer pool.

HOW TO USE:
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Build and add the pg_autoprewarm to shared_preload_libraries. Auto
Pre-warmer
process automatically do dumping of buffer pool's block info and load them
when
restarted.

TO DO:
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Add functionality to dump based on timer at regular interval.
And some cleanups.
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Thanks and Regards
Mithun C Y
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com