Re: pg_rewarm status

Le mardi 17 décembre 2013 17:45:51, Robert Haas a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
> > On 12/17/13, 8:34 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I have used pg_prewarm during some of work related to Buffer Management
> >>> and
> >>> other performance related work. It is quite useful utility.
> >>> +1 for reviving this patch for 9.4
> >>
> >> Any other votes?
> >
> > We've had to manually code something that runs EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT *
> > from a bunch of tables to warm our caches after a restart, but there's
> > numerous flaws to that approach obviously.
> >
> > Unfortunately, what we really need to warm isn't the PG buffers, it's the
> > FS cache, which I suspect this won't help. But I still see where just
> > pg_buffers would be useful for a lot of folks, so +1.
>
> It'll do either one.  For the FS cache, on Linux, you can also use
> pgfincore.

on Linux, *BSD (including OS X). like what's in postgresql. Only Windows is
out of scope so far. and there is a solution for windows too, there is just no
requirement from pgfincore users.

Maybe you can add the windows support in PostgreSQL now ?

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