On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:09AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On November 16, 2004 08:00 pm, Michael Adler wrote: > > http://pugs.postgresql.org/sfpug/archives/000021.html > > > > I noticed that some of you left coasters were talking about memcached > > and pgsql. I'm curious to know what was discussed. > > Have a look at the pdf presentation found on the following site: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/pgmemcache/ Thanks for that. That presentation was rather broad and the API seems rather general purpose, but I wonder why you would really want access the cache by way of the DB? If one major point of memcache is to allocate RAM to a low-overhead server instead of to the RDBMS's disk cache, why would you add the overhead of the RDBMS to the process? (this is a bit of straw man, but just trying to flesh-out the pros and cons) Still, it seems like a convenient way to maintain cache coherency, assuming that your application doesn't already have a clean way to do that. (just my uninformed opinion, though...) -Mike
