As part of our application we are running a postgres server on a RAM disk. All of the data stored in this database is obviously disposable, and we need to optimize access as much as possible. This is on Solaris 9/intel, postgres 7.4.5. Some things I'm wondering about:
1) is it possible to turn off WAL entirely? If not, what configuration of WAL/Checkpoint settings would result in minimal WAL activity?
2) Given that the whole database is in memory, does it make sense to set random_page_cost to a high value...or, um... a low value? (Does it show that I don't understand this parameter?)
3) Any other settings I should be looking at?
Thanks. I don't know if anybody else has done this, but I'd be interested to hear about it, if so.
- DAP
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