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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:40:14 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
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To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Questions on query planner, join types, and work_mem
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Do you mean "written to disk", or written out from shared_buffers to
> disk cache ?
>   

The later turns into the former eventually, so both really.  The kernel 
will do some amount of write combining for you if you're lucky.  But not 
in all cases; it may decide to write something out to physical disk 
before the second write shows up.

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Greg Smith  2ndQuadrant US  Baltimore, MD
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