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Old 04-09-2008, 06:11 PM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: [pgsql-general] In memory tables/databases

"Alexander Todorov" <alexx.todorov@gmail.com> writes:
> is there anything to emulate the MySQL memory table engine?
> A straight forward solution is to create a ramfs volume and mount/link
> content under /var/lib/postresql there. Then add some scripts to
> save/restore databases when the server restarts.
> I am wondering is there something else?


As long as shared_buffers is high enough, there doesn't seem to be much
point in worrying about this; the incremental performance gain will be
minimal since everything will be in RAM anyway. Or do you think losing
the content of the database at server crash is a feature?

regards, tom lane

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