On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you have
> any proof that writing out a few GB of buffers and then reading them
> back in is actually much cheaper than letting the database re-read the
> data from the disk files?

I believe he's just writing out the meta data. Ie, which blocks to
re-reread from the disk files.

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greg

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