Re: Perfomance Tuning - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Sean Chittenden
Subject Re: Perfomance Tuning
Date
Msg-id 20030813232330.GB12595@perrin.int.nxad.com
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In response to Re: Perfomance Tuning  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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> Andrew Sullivan's fairly regular response is that he tried (albeit
> not VASTLY extensively) to distinguish between disks when working
> with fibre arrays, and he couldn't measure an improvement in
> shifting WAL (the OBVIOUS thing to shift) to separate disks.

Real quick... the faster the drives, the less important it is to move
WAL onto a different drive.  The slower the drives, the more important
this is... which is why this isn't as necessary (if at all) for large
production environments.

-sc

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Sean Chittenden

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