Re: DB on a ramdisk (was Re: Temporary, In-memory Postgres DB?)

On 11/7/07, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 11/07/07 09:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> >> On 11/07/07 09:03, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> >>> Is there such a thing as a temporary, probably in-memory, version of a
> >>> Postgres DB?
> >
> >> If you have enough RAM, and your database is small enough, the OS
> >> will eventually cache the whole thing.
> >
> > Or put it on a ramdisk filesystem.
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> But doesn't that just add more overhead and reduce the amount of
> memory that the OS can cache things in?

Didn't say it was the smart thing to do. Just that you could do it.

I think if one is looking at in memory databases, PostgreSQL is NOT
the first choice really.