Re: Blog post about Amazon Elastic Block Storage - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Blog post about Amazon Elastic Block Storage
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In response to Blog post about Amazon Elastic Block Storage  (John Cheng <jlcheng@ymail.com>)
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John Cheng <jlcheng@ymail.com> writes:
> I know quite a number of people here, like myself, are intrigued by the prospect of running PostgreSQL on Amazon's
EC.I thought this blog post on the performance of EBS was interesting, so I figure I'd share it with everybody. 

> http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs/

7000 seeks per second?  Somehow I don't believe that.  Especially not
in tandem with the sub-megabyte-per-second throughput figures ...

            regards, tom lane

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