Re: Hardware requirements for a PostGIS server

On 12/02/15 12:38, Mathieu Basille wrote:
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http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2015-February/040134.html
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* About usage being mostly read: this will be true for most "pure GIS"
tasks (mostly intersecting), but I find that (from experience), we
usually end up with a lot of intermediary tables for our analyses (new
tables for the most part, not new columns).
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For greater performance of intermediary tables: if the these tables can
be easily recreated, then you might want to make use of PostgreSQL's
unlogged tables:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-createtable.html
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CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE
[ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_name ( [
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UNLOGGED

If specified, the table is created as an unlogged table. Data
written to unlogged tables is not written to the write-ahead log
(see Chapter 29), which makes them considerably faster than ordinary
tables. However, they are not crash-safe: an unlogged table is
automatically truncated after a crash or unclean shutdown. The
contents of an unlogged table are also not replicated to standby
servers. Any indexes created on an unlogged table are automatically
unlogged as well.
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Cheers,
Gavin