Re: table spaces

On 3/12/2013 2:31 PM, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote:

I was basically under impression that separating WAL is a big plus. On top of that, having separate partition to hold some other data - will do too.
But it sounds - from what you said - like having all in single logical drive will work, because raid card will spread the load amongst number of drives.
Am I understanding that correctly ?

both those models have merits.

doing a single raid 10 should fairly evenly distribute the IO workload given adequate concurrency, and suitable stripe size and alignment.     there are scenarios where a hand tuned spindle layout can be more efficient, but there's also the possibility of getting write bound on any one of those 3 seperate raid1's, and having other disks sitting idle.