Re: postgres on a PDA

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres on a PDA
Date: 2003-01-15 05:01:39
Message-ID: 1883.1042606899@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org> writes:
> On 14 Jan 2003 at 23:43, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But I fear the real problem is going to be that FLASH memory has a
>> limited lifetime (measured in write cycles).

> What, roughly, is the limit?

I am probably a decade out of date on this, but when I last paid
attention I think it was on the order of magnitude of 10000 write
cycles --- which Postgres could blow through in no time. I hope
it's better now, but I dunno by how much. Anyone have more
up-to-date info?

regards, tom lane

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