"Peter T. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But how can Postgres be 'forced' to keep a table in memory? I've noticed
> that on our Dual Pentium4, 1GB RAM machine, the size of the individual
> postgres threads is very small. Top reports it as like 5K or 20K (I believe
> that's what it means). Shouldn't this number be 100's of MB if postgres is
> properly moving my tables to RAM? I do notice that the system cache is very
> very large...

System cache == RAM.  This is the behavior you want.

                        regards, tom lane

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