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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:59:43 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Martin Nickel <martin@portant.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What gets cached?
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:34:30AM -0500, Martin Nickel wrote:
> I don't know of any way to view what is actually cached at any point in time

In 8.1 (currently in beta) you can use contrib/pg_buffercache.  Code
for older versions is available on PgFoundry:

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbuffercache/

Note that pg_buffercache shows only pages in PostgreSQL's buffer
cache; it doesn't show your operating system's cache.

-- 
Michael Fuhr