On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:51:44PM +0200, Denis Gasparin wrote:
> It seems like postgres or the operating system (linux) is keeping in
> cache that old data even if it has been deleted.
Just remember: "free memory" is "memory you paid for and are not
using" == "wasted memory". The OS knows damn well it's not important
and will throw it out if necessary, but it costs nothing to keep it.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.