On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Then what is the purpose of shared buffers if nothing is being reused  is it
> only used to keep track locks, changes and what is to being spooled to the
> kernel???

It caches disk pages (and holds other data structures), not query results.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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