> On Jul 16, 2024, at 21:45, Imndlf8r@gmx.com wrote:
> Or, does Postgres expect to be able to access any media however it wants
> (i.e., R/w), regardless of the expected access patterns of the data stored
> there?
Well, yes and no.
PostgreSQL will not respond well to having media that is literally read only in the sense that a write operation to it
willfail. At some point, it will need to (for example) vacuum the tables, and that will means writes. That being
said,if the only thing in a tablespace are tables (and their indexes) that are written once then never again, you won't
beconstantly getting writes to them. You may want to do a VACUUM (ANALYZE, FREEZE) on the tables in those tablespaces
oncethe data is loaded.
PostgreSQL will be generating WAL as you do data-modifying operations, so that should be aimed at storage that very low
writefatigue. Be very cautious about using a RAM disk for anything, though, unless you are *very* confident the
batterybackup on it is 100% reliable. PostgreSQL isn't designed to handle recovery from having the WAL just disappear
outfrom under it on a crash.
