Re: 7.0.3(nofsync) vs 7.1

At 16:27 9/12/00 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>It might be interesting
>moving data/pg_xlog to a separate disk drive and see how it performs
>better.

Good idea. One of the fundamental rules with Dec/RDB is to put the
XLOG-equivant on a different drive from *any* database-related file.
Another setting you might consider is 'fsync-every-n-commits'.

The different drive provides enhanced recoverability as well as enhanced
performance.





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