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From	Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
Subject	Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql?
Date	October 30, 2008 15:42:57
Msg-id	2f4958ff0810300842u1252531auc5b0c8d16002274d@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql? (Christophe <xof@thebuild.com>)
Responses	Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql? ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List	pgsql-general

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Christophe <xof@thebuild.com> wrote:

I'm a bit surprised to hear that; what would pg be doing, unique to it, that would cause it to be slower on a RAID-1 cluster than on a plain drive?

yes, it is slower on mirror-raid from single drive.

I can give you all the /proc/* dumps if you want, as far as computer goes, it isn't anything fancy. dual way p4, and sata drives of some sort.

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GJ

From: "Joshua D. Drake"
Date: 30 October 2008, 15:38:18
Subject: Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql?

From: "Joshua D. Drake"
Date: 30 October 2008, 15:54:25
Subject: Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql?