Re: Re: Future plans for raw devices ?

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > Most think that raw devices are a pain and offer little performance
> > > improvement and lots of portability and coding problems.
> >
> >  I don't know how much it is a performance improvement (someone say
10-20%),
> > but Bruce is probably right, it is a huge work and with dependence on
> > hardware & system implementation.
> >
> >  We already discussed about it --- it is hacker's archive.
>
> One intresting issue is that commerical databases that recommended raw
> spaces are moving away from them, which helps us to know that the
> raw device benefit must be pretty small.

I beg to differ.  Informix (the system my shop uses) blazes using raw
devices; Oracle (from what I understand) does also.  Sybase (a resource
hog), on the other hand, seems to prefer cooked file systems.

> >
> >  IMHO now is not in PG background for features like I/O raw or on-line
> > replication. It needs better storage layout and tablespace feature.
>
> Vadim is working on storage layout for 7.2, and replication should be
> done after WAL is implemented.
>
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