Re: [GENERAL] Can we Flush the Postgres Shared Memory ?

2011/5/3 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:30 AM, raghu ram <raghuchennuru(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Raghavendra
>> <raghavendra(dot)rao(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, raghu ram <raghuchennuru(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > It may be a silly question, still out of curiosity I want to know, is
>>>> > there
>>>> > any possible way to flush the Postgres Shared Memory without restarting
>>>> > the
>>>> > cluster.
>>>> > In Oracle, we can flush the SGA, can we get the same feature here..
>>>> > Thanks in Advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The CHECKPOINT command will do this for you.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> According to PostgreSQL documentation, whenever you execute "CHECKPOINT" in
>> the database,it will flush the modified data files presented in the Shared
>> Buffers retuned to the Disk.
>>            http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-checkpoint.html
>> Is this clears the entire shared memory cache and same time,if i execute
>> fresh SQL statement, Data will be retuned from disk??
>
> no it will not, or at least there is no guarantee it will be.  the
> only way to reset the buffers in that sense is to restart the database
> (and even then they might not be read from disk, because they could
> sit in the o/s cache).  to force a read from the drive you'd have to
> reboot the server, or at least shut it down and use a lot of memory
> for some other purpose.

with linux, you can : "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" for the OS cache

>
> merlin
>
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