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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

by Enrico Pirozzi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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pgmemcache

If you can resolve the page invalidation problem in a more general way, it's possible to use memcached as an intermediary for database queries too. When a user on a website is grabbing their own data over and over, but not modifying it, you should be able to figure out how to cache database lookups related to their data usefully. Then you just need to be careful to throw those pages out if the data is modified.

The way to do that in PostgreSQL is quite straightforward: simply add a pair of triggers for AFTER UPDATE ON and AFTER DELETE ON for any table you are storing in the cache. If you take care of that, you can use the pgmemcache program from http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/ in order to handle the routine chores of ...

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