Re: [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems  (Justin <[email protected]>)
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Justin <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Then what is the purpose of shared buffers if nothing is being reused  is it
> only used to keep track locks, changes and what is to being spooled to the
> kernel???

It caches disk pages (and holds other data structures), not query results.

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