> Yeah, I'm pretty well convinced this whole approach is a dead end. > Priming the OS buffer cache seems way more useful. I also think > saving the blocks to be read rather than the actual blocks makes a lot > more sense.
Well, his proposal works on any platforms PostgreSQL supports. On the other hand PgFincore works on Linux only. Who wants Linux only tool be in core? Also I really want to see the performance comparison between these two approaches in the real world database. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
