[postgis-users] Is caching PostGIS database possible

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Tue Sep 2 01:07:46 PDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 10:17:58PM +0300, Ceyhun Ganioglu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to cache a whole PostGIS database? For example:
> 
> If a whole database is around 7 GB and the server has 24 GB average
> available RAM. Is it possible to cache all database to RAM and query
> the GIS records from RAM instead of disk?

You could use a RAM disk to store the data.
In that case you'd better do that only for a slave db, so that your data
is not lost on rebooting the machine...

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