AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device
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Msg-id 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC1AE@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Actually, Oracle has been moving *away* from this...more 
> recent versions
> of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file systems, since, in
> most cases, the Operating System does a better job, and its 
> too difficult
> to have Oracle itself optimize internal for all the different variants
> that it supports....

Actually Oracle has features that only work with raw/io, e.g. parallel
server.
Once you know how to handle the raw devs they are a lot more convenient
than flat files. If you have a 100 Gb + DB raw dev is the only way to go. 

Andreas


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