Re: postgres on a PDA - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Beutin
Subject Re: postgres on a PDA
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Msg-id 20030115121246.A8797@laokoon.bug.net
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In response to Re: postgres on a PDA  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:43:26PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> But I fear the real problem is going to be that FLASH memory has a
> limited lifetime (measured in write cycles).  Postgres is going to spend
> that lifetime with abandon, because it has absolutely no motivation to
> avoid disk writes.  Are you prepared to replace the FLASH every so
> often?
The IBM MicroDrive might be a solution for this kind of problem.

Greetings,
-tb
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Thomas Beutin                             tb@laokoon.IN-Berlin.DE
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