Re: Disable WAL completely - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi Depesz,

    Is there way to minimize the I/O operation on disk/CF.

    Can I create RAM file system and point the pg_xlog files to RAM
location instead of CF.  whether this will work?

Regards,
Jeeva

-----Original Message-----
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski [mailto:depesz@depesz.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:50 PM
To: Kathirvel, Jeevanandam
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Disable WAL completely

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +0530, Kathirvel, Jeevanandam wrote:
>             I want to disable Write Ahead Log (WAL) completely because
> of following reasons,

basically, you can't disable it.

regards,

depesz

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