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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Advice request: Postgresql setup for flash memories.
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Msg-id 12001.1156715116@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Advice request: Postgresql setup for flash memories.  (Enrique Arizón <e_arizon_benito@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Advice request: Postgresql setup for flash memories.  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Enrique=20Ariz=F3n?= <e_arizon_benito@yahoo.com> writes:
>  since flash memory hardware is dropping prices at
> high rate I was planning to test how Postgresql runs
> in such hardware.

This is probably a bad idea, unless the number-of-write-cycles
limitation of flash memory has gone away while I wasn't looking.
PG is pretty piggy as far as rewriting disk pages goes, especially
for the WAL files.

            regards, tom lane

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