Re: Query results caching?

From: Ben-Nes Yonatan <da(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il>
To: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <akretschmer(at)despammed(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Query results caching?
Date: 2005-08-22 22:28:28
Message-ID: 430A518C.2010404@canaan.co.il
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> am 22.08.2005, um 22:13:49 +0200 mailte Ben-Nes Yonatan folgendes:
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>>I think that I was misunderstood, Ill make an example:
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> Okay:
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>>Lets say that im making the following query for the first time on the
>>"motorcycles" table which got an index on the "manufacturer" field:
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>>EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT manufacturer FROM motorcycles WHERE
>>manufacturer='suzuki';
>>.. Total runtime: 3139.587 ms
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> neither the DB nor the OS has the the table and index in the cache.
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>>Now im doing the same query again and i get a much faster result (cause of
>>the "caching"): Total runtime: 332.53 ms
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> OS and DN has now the table and index in the cache.
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>>After both of those queries I drop the index and query the table again with
>>the exact same query as before and now I receive: Total runtime: 216834.871
>>ms
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> Without index -> DB make a seq-scan. Very slow, of cource.
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>>And for my last check I run the exact same query again (without creating
>>the INDEX back again) and I get quite similar result to my third query:
>>Total runtime: 209218.01 ms
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> Never mind. The table is too big for the cache.
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>>My problem is that (maybe I just dont understand something basic here...)
>>the last 2 (also the second query but I dont care about that) queries were
>>using the "cache" that was created after the first query (which had an
>>INDEX) so none of them actually showed me what will happen if a client will
>>do such a search (without an INDEX) for the first time.
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>>I want to delete that "caching" after I do the first 2 queries so my next
>>queries will show me "real life results".
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> No problem: demount all RAM and send this to me ;-)
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> Regards, Andreas

heheheh sure to which address should I send it? :P

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