-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/07 09:58, Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: >> On 11/07/07 09:03, Gauthier, Dave wrote: >>> Is there such a thing as a temporary, probably in-memory, version of a >>> Postgres DB? > >> If you have enough RAM, and your database is small enough, the OS >> will eventually cache the whole thing. > > Or put it on a ramdisk filesystem. But doesn't that just add more overhead and reduce the amount of memory that the OS can cache things in? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHMeykS9HxQb37XmcRArErAJ47+9oq1/fTZZ4AXrLnL2qGo6E29gCgqVhP DoZuWDTpWE4Rks3tjAWa0mQ= =fuHr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly