Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache
Date: 2010-06-18 20:56:42
Message-ID: 4C1BDD8A.3060704@agliodbs.com
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On 6/18/10 2:15 AM, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
> I'd like to point out the costs involved in having a whole separate
> "version" of Postgres that has all this safety switched off. Package
> managers will not thank anyone for having to distribute another version
> of the system, and woe betide the user who installs the wrong version
> because "it runs faster". No, this is much better as a configurable option.

Agreed, although initial alphas of this concept are likely to in fact be
a separate source code tree. Eventually when we have it working well it
could become an initdb-time option.

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-- Josh Berkus
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