Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache

2010/6/24 Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 21:14 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 2010/6/24 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
>> >
>> >> And I'm also planning to implement unlogged tables, which have the
>> >> same contents for all sessions but are not WAL-logged (and are
>> >> truncated on startup).
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>> this is similar MySQL's memory tables. Personally, I don't see any
>> practical sense do same work on PostgreSQL now, when memcached exists.
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> Because memcache is yet another layer and increases overhead to the
> application developers by adding yet another layer to work with. Non
> logged tables would rock.

I see only one positive point - it can help to people with broken
design application with migration to PostgreSQL.

There are different interesting feature - cached procedure's results
like Oracle 11. - it's more general.

only idea.

For me memory tables are nonsens, but what about memory cached
materialised views (maybe periodically refreshed)?

Regards

Pavel

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