From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:23:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Document that effective cache size does not assume data remains in the
X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA4~301
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c6e6f7fd3ffa984a202b910ef3237e26f9d3c2e;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Document that effective cache size does not assume data remains in the
cache between queries.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 8bdc57febcc..3a0f755b080 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -2424,7 +2424,9 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
         space.  This parameter has no effect on the size of shared
         memory allocated by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, nor
         does it reserve kernel disk cache; it is used only for estimation
-        purposes.  The default is 128 megabytes (<literal>128MB</>).
+        purposes.  The system also does not assume data remains in
+        the disk cache between queries.  The default is 128 megabytes
+        (<literal>128MB</>).
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>