Ross, > Memcached is a PG memory store, I gather,
Nope. It's a hyperfast resident-in-memory hash that allows you to stash stuff like user session information and even materialized query set results. Thanks to SeanC, we even have a plugin, pgmemcached. > but...what is squid, lighttpd? > anything directly PG-related? No. These are all related to making the web server do more. The idea is NOT to hit the database every time you have to serve up a web page, and possibly not to hit the web server either. For example, you can use squid 3 for "reverse" caching in front of your web server, and serve far more page views than you could with Apache alone. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
