On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:49 +0000, Sam Mason wrote: > Hi, > > I was doing some performance checks and wondered what the best way to > clear out the shared buffers is? With the recent improvements in buffer > management it appears a simple SELECT * FROM large_table; doesn't help > here! > > I was hoping for a function I could call, or maybe some variable I write > to, that would cause the contents to be invalidated. Restart the database. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general