> It seems inevitable that Postgres will eventually eliminate that redundant > layer of buffering. Since mmap is not workable, that means using O_DIRECT > to > read table and index data.
What about going the other way and simply letting the o/s do all the caching? How bad (or good) would the performance really be? Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
