Re: Anyone using a SAN?

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Should this be summarized somewhere in our docs; just a few lines with
> the tradeoffs, direct storage = cheaper, faster, SAN = more configurable?

I think it's kind of stetching the PostgreSQL documentation to be covering
that.  It's hard to generalize here without giving a fair amount of
background and caveats--that last message was about as compact a
commentary on this as I could come up with.  One of the things I was
hoping to push into the community documentation one day was a larger look
at disk layout than covers this, RAID issues, and related topics (this got
started at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.64 but stalled).

What's nice about putting it into a web-only format is that it's easy to
hyperlink heavily into the archives to recommend specific discussion
threads of the issues for reference, which isn't practical in the manual.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD