Re: Taking the cache out of the equation?

From: Erik Jones <ejones(at)engineyard(dot)com>
To: Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Taking the cache out of the equation?
Date: 2009-06-12 22:12:57
Message-ID: 875976BE-CAC0-4F10-B7CC-0D651B109967@engineyard.com
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On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:

> Caching helps a *lot* and I'm thankful for that but I would like to
> take it out of the picture as I massage my queries for better
> performance. Naturally the first invocation of the query cannot
> take advantage of the cache and these queries would normally only be
> called once for the same target data. What tricks are there to
> flush, ignore, circumvent the caching boost? (Especially in the
> production environment.)

Why on earth would you want your queries to always go to disk?

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