Re: restoring a shadow - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Turbo Fredriksson
Subject Re: restoring a shadow
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Msg-id 878zcf9k80.fsf@papadoc.bayour.com
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In response to Re: restoring a shadow  (mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>)
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>>>>> "mlw" == mlw  <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
   mlw> Turbo Fredriksson wrote:   >> Now, I'd like to have PGDATA in a ram disk (we're only   >> expecting a maximum
of10-15Mb of data). The problem is if the   >> machine is being reset (hardware vice) or if it crashes.  Then   >> the
ramdisk is lost. This is where PGDATA2 comes into play...
 
   mlw> Why bother with a RAM disk? If you only have a few megabytes,   mlw> why not just allocate a large number of
buffersto   mlw> PostgreSQL.
 

Seems like I have to. I couldn't reproduce the success, so :)

Must have been having a stale process or something with the original
db in place...


I'll try this out and see if we can speed things up that way. Thanx.

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