Re: how smart is is pg with shared_buffers?

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how smart is is pg with shared_buffers?
Date: 2003-09-24 02:51:01
Message-ID: 3F710695.1010704@selectacast.net
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Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Does pg know to keep indexes in memory and release table data? Does it
> use an lru algorithm or does it know that certain tables are hit more
> often and others and should be given prefrence?

And when it has to do a seq scan on a table does it start with what is in the cache before
it goes to the os to read from the disk?

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