On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> What if you did this ONCE and wrote the results to a file someplace?
>
> That's still a cache, you've just defaulted on your obligation to think
> about what conditions require the cache to be flushed.
Yep. Unfortunately, I don't have a good idea how to handle that; I
was hoping someone else did.
> Before going much further with this, we should probably do some timings
> of 64K calls of iswupper and friends, just to see how bad a dumb
> implementation will be.
Can't hurt.
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