Jeff Janes <[email protected]> writes:
> If you told postgresql to tell the kernel not to cache the data it reads,
> how would this help?

I seem to recall also that O_DIRECT disables optimizations we definitely
want, like read-ahead.  So it could come out a loser independently of
any what's-in-cache concerns.

                        regards, tom lane


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