[SQL] Can Postgres cache a table in memory?

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Traub
Hello all; I'm trying to speed up a query which returns the majority of a table so and index isn't helpful. I've got more than enough RAM to hold my table so, can anyone tell me if there is there a way to force Postgres to cache a table in RAM? Any help would be appreciated.

[SQL] Help tuning query

2002-09-27 Thread Kevin Traub
All; Can anyone please help with the tuning of this query? With 77000 rows in the operator_messages database the query is taking almost 15 seconds to return. Preference woul dbe under 5 seconds if possible. System load on a dual processor P3 with 1.5GB of memory remains under .4 during the query