Re: By now, why PostgreSQL 9.2 don't support SSDs?

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:08:44PM +0800, 赖文豫 wrote:
> As we know, SSDs are widely used in various kinds of applications. But the SMGR
> in PostgreSQL still only 
> support magnetic disk. How do we make full use of SSDs to improve the
> performance of PostgreSQL?

When the storage manager (SMGR) says magnetic disk, it is talking about
read/write media with random access capabillity, vs. something like
write-only media, which was originally supported in the code.  Postgres
works just fine with SSDs;  the only adjustment you might want to make
is to reduce random_page_cost.

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