Does PostgreSQL cache all columns of a table after SELECT?
Tim Schwenke <tim@trallnag.com>
From: Tim Schwenke <tim@trallnag.com>
To: "pgsql-novice" <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-06-05T12:15:21Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
Hello, I have the following table with the following columns: large_a: text (few dozen characters up to a few hundred) large_b: text (few dozen characters up to a few hundred) The table has several million rows. The DB is running on a large machine. I perform the following query: select large_a from table; The first query takes a few minutes. Afterwards I see that the cache in memory has grown. Next query only takes a few seconds. What I want to know: Does the cache also contain large_b? Or is only large_a cached? Assumption is that memory is large enough to fit everything.