NAME

SHOW_POOL_CACHE - displays cache storage statistics

SYNOPSIS

   SHOW POOL_CACHE

DESCRIPTION

SHOW POOL_CACHE displays in memory query cache statistics if in memory query cache is enabled. Here is an example session: See Table 28, “Items displayed in show pool_cache” for a description of each item.

    test=# \x
    \x
    Expanded display is on.
    test=# show pool_cache;
    show pool_cache;
    -[ RECORD 1 ]---------------+---------
    num_cache_hits              | 891703
    num_selects                 | 99995
    cache_hit_ratio             | 0.90
    num_hash_entries            | 131072
    used_hash_entries           | 99992
    num_cache_entries           | 99992
    used_cache_entries_size     | 12482600
    free_cache_entries_size     | 54626264
    fragment_cache_entries_size | 0

Note

If the cache storage is memcached, values for all columns except num_cache_hits, num_selects and cache_hit_ratio show 0.

Table 28. Items displayed in show pool_cache

Name	Description
num_cache_hits	The number of hits against the query cache.
num_selects	The number of SELECT that did not hit against the query cache.
cache_hit_ratio	The cache hit ratio. Calculated as num_cache_hits/(num_cache_hits+num_selects).
num_hash_entries	The number of entries in the hash table used to manage the cache. In order to manage large number of cache Pgpool-II uses the hash table. The number of hash entries is automatically adjusted to the nearest power of two greater than memqcache_max_num_cache. For example, 100,000, which is the default for memqcache_max_num_cache is adjusted to 131,072 (2 to the 17th power).
used_hash_entries	The number of used hash entries. If the value approaches num_hash_entries, it is recommended to increase num_hash_entries. Even if all the hash table entries are used, no error is raised. However, performance suffers because hash table entries and caches are reused to register new cache entries.
num_cache_entries	The number of cache entries already used. In the current implementation the number should be identical to used_hash_entries.
free_cache_entries_size	The size in bytes of the unused cache. As this value approaches 0, it removes the registered cache and registers a new cache, which does not cause an error, but reduces performance. Consider to increase memqcache_total_size.
fragment_cache_entries_size	The size in bytes of the fragmented cache. When a registered cache is evicted, the space becomes fragmented until the next time that block is reused. Pgpool-II writes cache in fixed-size blocks specified by memqcache_cache_block_size. When a registered cache is evicted, the space becomes fragmented until the next time that block is reused. fragment_cache_entries_size displays the total size of such fragmented regions.