Re: Looking for a cheap upgrade (RAID) - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: Looking for a cheap upgrade (RAID)
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Msg-id 200305031345.40156.shridhar_daithankar@nospam.persistent.co.in
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In response to Re: Looking for a cheap upgrade (RAID)  ("D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>)
List pgsql-performance
On Saturday 03 May 2003 13:27, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2003 16:10, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > More disks is almost always better.  Putting WAL on a seperate (non-RAID)
> > disk is usually a very good idea.
>
> From a performance POV perhaps.  The subject came up on hackers recently
> and it was pointed out that if you use RAID for reliability and redundancy
> rather than for performance, you need to keep the WAL files on the RAID
> too.

but for performance reason, that RAID can be separate from the data RAID..:-)

 Shridhar

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