From: Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com>
To: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Taking the cache out of the equation?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:12:57 -0700
Message-ID: <875976BE-CAC0-4F10-B7CC-0D651B109967@engineyard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EA121.2070004@gmail.com>
References: <4A2EA121.2070004@gmail.com>
On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
> Caching helps a *lot* and I'm thankful for that but I would like to
> take it out of the picture as I massage my queries for better
> performance. Naturally the first invocation of the query cannot
> take advantage of the cache and these queries would normally only be
> called once for the same target data. What tricks are there to
> flush, ignore, circumvent the caching boost? (Especially in the
> production environment.)
Why on earth would you want your queries to always go to disk?
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