Re: Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk
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Msg-id 920a66f7c939c5a59f50d62d4b3979e82c25ff21.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk  ("Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>)
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On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 09:49 +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
> is someone using temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk ? Any experiences with that?
> I did some quick tests and checked the archives but could not find any information that either confirmed it is a bad
ideanor the opposite.
 

Taking a step back, wouldn't it be better to increase "work_mem"
and "temp_buffers" and set "temp_file_limit", so that temporary
files are avoided whenever possible and temporary tables are cached?

Then essentially you are using the same memory for the same purposes,
but in a supported fashion.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe




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