On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM jimmy <mpokky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I use select pg_prewarm('table1','read','main') to load data of table1 into the memory. > when I use select count(1) from table1 group by aa to query data. > I find the speed of query is not fast, I wonder whether it query data from memory. > And it is slower than Oracle, both of Oracle and Postgresql has same table and count of data. > when pg_prewarm use 'read' mode, the data is put into the OS cache, how to examine the table which is pg_prewarmed into the OS cache . > I know pg_buffercache ,but it just examine the table in the shared buffer of Postgresql, not the table in the OS cache. This is a quick and dirty hack, but it might do what you want: https://github.com/macdice/pgdata_mincore Tested on FreeBSD, not sure how well it'll travel. -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com