> Yeah, I'm pretty well convinced this whole approach is a dead end.
> Priming the OS buffer cache seems way more useful. I also think
> saving the blocks to be read rather than the actual blocks makes a lot
> more sense.
Well, his proposal works on any platforms PostgreSQL supports. On the
other hand PgFincore works on Linux only. Who wants Linux only tool be
in core?
Also I really want to see the performance comparison between these two
approaches in the real world database.
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