Il 30/09/2013 16:41, Xenofon Papadopoulos ha scritto:
Should this ratio stay low even in the case of a write-heavy table?
Yes, in my opinion. Before data manipolation, database pages are moved on the shared buffer. heap_blks_read and heap_blks_hit are involved in those operations, not directly in data persistance on hard driver.
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