Re: pg_rewarm status

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Amiel <becauseimjeff(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_rewarm status
Date: 2013-12-17 20:33:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY5id82KZuc01CvxG5+9E1+4=iCYy5okEo7k0J=8brBMw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:31 PM, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Any other votes?
>
> +1
> Some customers requested:
>
> 1. fill the database cache with frequently accessed data before starting or
> resuming service for their users (for the first time or after maintenance
> work), so that they can provide steady and predictable performance.
>
> 2. pin some (reference or master) data in the database cache not to be
> evicted from the cache (like Oracle's KEEP buffer?), for the same reason as
> 1.
>
> I'd love such useful feature like pg_rewarm to be included in core. I hope
> such nice features won't be rejected just because there are already similar
> external tools.

For the record, the name of the tool is pg_PREwarm, not pg_rewarm.
The subject line of this thread is a typo.

Sounds like it might be worth dusting the patch off again...

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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