Re: How to keep a table in memory?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alex Drobychev <adrobj(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: How to keep a table in memory?
Date: 2007-11-13 02:49:46
Message-ID: 473910CA.3050206@dunslane.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, Postgres is know to be used successfully on some *extremely* heavy
>>> websites, without using tables pinned in memory.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>
> I give this a +/- 1. Yes extremely heavy websites can do this *but*
> they require extremely expensive hardware to do so.
>
>

I expect extremely heavy websites to require extremely expensive
equipment regardless of the software they use. Cost was not the issue
raised by the OP.

cheers

andrew
>
>

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