SUBHAM ROY <subham....@gmail.com> wrote:

> My output of explain (analyze,buffers) is something like this:
> 
> shared hit=3796624 read=46038
> 
> So what is meant by read here? Does it indicates number of disk reads?
> 
> Does shared hit takes into account only the hit in the pg_buffercache of the
> postgres or it also takes into account the linux buffers that postgres uses?

shared hit: read from shared mem
shared read: read from disk into shared mem


Andreas
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