Re: general questions on Postgresql and deployment on - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: general questions on Postgresql and deployment on
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Msg-id 877jnzcqm7.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to general questions on Postgresql and deployment on win32 platform  (Calvin Wood <calvin.wood@gmail.com>)
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Calvin Wood <calvin.wood@gmail.com> writes:

> symbolic link. But on win32, there is no equivalent. However, even under
> *nix system, I believe symbolic link can only be created for directories on
> the same hard drive. This seems less than optimal. Typically, one would
> place database files on RAID 5 drives (to maximize random access speed) and
> log files on mirrored drives (to maximize sequential access speed).

On Unix, a symbolic link can point anywhere.  It's hard links that are
limited to the same filesystem (not necessarily a disk drive in the
hardware sense).

-Doug

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