Re: Completely un-tuned Postgresql benchmark results: SSD vs desktop HDD - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Completely un-tuned Postgresql benchmark results: SSD vs desktop HDD
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In response to Re: Completely un-tuned Postgresql benchmark results: SSD vs desktop HDD  (Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>)
Responses Re: Completely un-tuned Postgresql benchmark results: SSD vs desktop HDD  (Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>)
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:

> ANY disk that says "write is complete" when it really is not is entirely
> unsuitable for ANY real database use.  It is simply a matter of time

What about read only slaves where there's a master with 100+spinning
hard drives "getting it right" and you need a half dozen or so read
slaves?  I can imagine that being ok, as long as you don't restart a
server after a crash without checking on it.

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