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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: arnaulist@andromeiberica.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Equivalents in PostgreSQL of MySQL's "ENGINE=MEMORY" "MAX_ROWS=1000"
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:08:13 -0400
Message-ID: <11336.1175627293@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4612A421.4060808@andromeiberica.com>
References: <4612A421.4060808@andromeiberica.com>

Arnau <arnaulist@andromeiberica.com> writes:
> MySQL manual says:
> "The MEMORY storage engine creates tables with contents that are stored
> in memory. As indicated by the name, MEMORY tables are stored in memory.

> Is there anything similar in PostgreSQL?

As long as you have shared_buffers large enough (or temp_buffers if
you're dealing with temp tables), everything will stay in memory anyway.
Don't sweat it.

			regards, tom lane



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