Re: Postgres for a "data warehouse", 5-10 TB - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Shaun Thomas
Subject Re: Postgres for a "data warehouse", 5-10 TB
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In response to Re: Postgres for a "data warehouse", 5-10 TB  (Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>)
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On 09/11/2011 09:44 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:

> And Andy is right, you'll have a lot less space. If raid 10 doesn't
> give you enough room, just leave two spare drives for a raid 0
> temporary partition. That will be at least twice as fast as doing
> temporary tables on the raid 6.

Alternatively, throw a lot of memory at the system and point the temp
space at /dev/shm. We've had really good luck doing that here, to avoid
excessive writes to our NVRAM PCIe cards. Make sure the transaction logs
(and any archives) get written to a separate LUN (ideally on a separate
controller) for even more win.

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