From: David Levy <dvid.levy@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: ramachandra.bhaskaram@wipro.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Caching in PostgreSQL
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:29:14 +0200
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I am using memcached (http://www.danga.com/memcached/) to cache Postgres
ADODB recordsets.
It's very efficient but has to be implemented in your own application.
On 1/16/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> ramachandra.bhaskaram@wipro.com wrote:
> > We were looking on how to improve the performance of our
> > application which is using PostgreSQL as backend. If postgreSQL is
> > supporting data page caching in the shared memory then we wanted to
> > design our application to read/write using the shared memory rather than
> > accessing the DB everytime so that, it will improve the performance of
> > our system.
>
> That's a bad idea. Just design your database schema with performance in
> mind, and use PostgreSQL normally with SQL queries. If you must, use a
> general-purpose caching library in your application, instead of trying
> to peek into PostgreSQL internals.
>
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