Re: query result set caching

Martin Sarsale <martin@emepe3.net> wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> Im looking for solutions (Free Software is better) to do query result
> caching.
> Thanks to the people from #postgresql I know that postgres doesn't do
> that by himself and the solution should be some kind of middle ware.
>
> This is our problem: we are executing the same set of SELECT SP/queries
> hundreds of times, without updating the DB. We would like to cache the
> result of this SP/queries so the next time somebody runs one of them,
> the results come from the cache instead of the db.
>
> We would like to use an already developed and tested solution but if we
> can't find anything that fits our needs, we can develop our own solution
> (playing w/ PHP and PG's LISTEN/NOTIFY)

There was a lot of talk about "materialized views" not too many months ago
on one of the PostgreSQL lists.  I believe these techniques can accomplish
what you're looking for.  An archive or google search should turn up
lots of info.

HTH.

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Bill Moran
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