Re: sql performance and cache

> I have two very similar queries which I need to execute. They both have
> exactly the same from / where conditions. When I execute the first, it takes
> about 16 seconds. The second is executed almost immediately after, it takes
> 13 seconds. In short, I'd like to know why the query result isn't being
> cached and any ideas on how to improve the execution.



> OK - so I could execute the query once, and get the maximum size of the
> array and the result set in one. I know what I am doing is less than optimal
> but I had expected the query results to be cached. So the second execution
> would be very quick. So why aren't they ? I have increased my cache size -
> shared_buffers is 2000 and I have doubled the default max_fsm... settings
> (although I am not sure what they do). sort_mem is 8192.

PostgreSQL does not have, and has never had a query cache - so nothing 
you do is going to make that second query faster.

Perhaps you are confusing it with the MySQL query cache?

Chris