PostgreSQL Buffer Manager (cont)
Buffer pool consists of:
BufferDescriptors
- shared fixed array (size
NBuffers) of BufferDesc
BufferBlocks
- shared fixed array (size
NBuffers) of Buffer
Buffer = index values in above arrays
- indexes: global buffers
1..NBuffers; local buffers negative
Size of buffer pool is set in postgresql.conf, e.g.
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