Re: Postgresql Caching

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:40:44PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:59 +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > It's already possible to do this, just create the TABLESPACE in a
> > ramdisk / tmpfs or whatever is available for your OS.
> This is not an ideal solution: if the machine reboots, the content of
> the tablespace will disappear, requiring manual administrator
> intervention to get Postgres running again.

It's enough to show whether disk read/write is the crux of this issue
or not. I suspect not.

Anybody have numbers?

Cheers,
mark

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