Re: [ADMIN] Flush Shared Buffer Cache

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Suvankar Roy wrote: > Actually I am trying to figure out how much execution time any query > is taking is taking when executed for the first time. > > Because once a query is executed for the first time, the query plan, > data buffer is cached so subsequently time taken is much lower. > > For

Re: [ADMIN] Flush Shared Buffer Cache

2009-07-15 Thread Suvankar Roy
the Shared buffer cache flushed to note the initial execution time. Is my understanding correct here ? Regards, Suvankar Roy Chander Ganesan 07/15/2009 08:48 PM To Suvankar Roy cc pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject Re: [ADMIN] Flush Shared Buffer Cache Suvankar Roy wrote: > &

Re: [ADMIN] Flush Shared Buffer Cache

2009-07-15 Thread Chander Ganesan
Suvankar Roy wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me out with how to flush out Shared Buffer Cache in Postgres. One way would be to restart the database, but I would like to avoid that. AFAIK, that's the only way. Is there a reason that you need to dump the shared buffers? Perhaps if we knew what

[ADMIN] Flush Shared Buffer Cache

2009-07-15 Thread Suvankar Roy
Hi, Can anyone help me out with how to flush out Shared Buffer Cache in Postgres. One way would be to restart the database, but I would like to avoid that. Regards, Suvankar Roy =-=-= Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may cont