Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF67B5DC0A for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:34:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14181-09 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:34:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from exprod7og126.obsmtp.com (exprod7og126.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.206]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EE3B5DC28 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:34:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail-fx0-f47.google.com ([209.85.161.47]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob126.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKThcHUt8/xFcxrrfRaPQSndHrTUdiyCrY@postini.com; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:34:12 PDT Received: by mail-fx0-f47.google.com with SMTP id 11so2320129fxg.34 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.58.147 with SMTP id g19mr2246782fah.72.1310132050635; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [90.190.247.247] (247.247.190.90.dyn.estpak.ee [90.190.247.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d15sm764359fan.2.2011.07.08.06.34.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E17074E.1020402@enterprisedb.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:34:06 +0300 From: Heikki Linnakangas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fi-FI; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110606 Icedove/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthomas@peak6.com CC: Magnus Hagander , Jim Nasby , Anthony Presley , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Infinite Cache References: <6CEF0279-2FD6-4A55-B256-6DEDD124E799@nasby.net> <4E13132A.9090204@peak6.com> In-Reply-To: <4E13132A.9090204@peak6.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201107/41 X-Sequence-Number: 44253 On 05.07.2011 16:35, Shaun Thomas wrote: > I'd say it's probably safe enough these days. But it's also one of those > exclusive selling points they're using right now to garner EDB > customers. So I doubt it'll be released any time *soon*, though may make > it eventually. I doubt the community would want it even if it was open sourced. As an open source project, what would probably make more sense is a similar caching mechanism built into the kernel, somewhere between the filesystem cache and user-space. That way any you could use it with any application that benefits from the kind of large cache that Infinite Cache provides. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com