Ron, Can you give me some pointers to make the tables RAM resident. If one does so, is the program accessing the data need to change. Does pgsql take care to write the data to disk?
Regards, akshay --------------------------------------- Akshay Mathur SMTS, Product Verification AirTight Networks, Inc. (www.airtightnetworks.net) O: +91 20 2588 1555 ext 205 F: +91 20 2588 1445 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:36 AM To: Tom Lane; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Massive performance issues Even better, if the table(s) can be made RAM resident, then searches, even random ones, can be very fast. He wants a 1000x performance improvement. Going from disk resident to RAM resident should help greatly in attaining that goal. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
