Re: speeding up a query on a large table

On 8/17/05, Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:50:55 -0400, Kevin Murphy
> <murphy@genome.chop.edu> wrote:
> > and because the number of possible search terms is so large, it
> >would be nice if the entire index could somehow be preloaded into memory
> >and encouraged to stay there.
> 
> Postgres does not have such a feature and I wouldn't recommend to mess
> around inside Postgres.  You could try to copy the relevant index
> file(s) to /dev/null to populate the OS cache ...

That actually works fine.  When I had big problems with a large GiST
index I just used cat to dump it at /dev/null and the OS grabbed it. 
Of course, that was on linux so YMMV.

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