Re: XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

I was kinda thinking that making the Block Size configurable at InitDB time
would be a nice & simple enhancement for PG 8.3. My own personal rule of
thumb for sizing is 8k for OLTP, 16k for mixed use, & 32k for DWH.

I have no personal experience with XFS, but, I've seen numerous internal
edb-postgres test results that show that of all file systems... OCFS
2.0seems to be quite good for PG update intensive apps (especially on
64 bit
machines).

On 8/1/06, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Milen,
>
> On 8/1/06 3:19 PM, "Milen Kulev" <makulev(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, forgot to ask:
> > What is the recommended/best PG block size for DWH database? 16k,
> 32k, 64k
> > ?
> > What hsould be the relation between XFS/RAID stripe size and PG block
> size ?
>
> We have found that the page size in PG starts to matter only at very high
> disk performance levels around 1000MB/s. Other posters have talked about
> maintenance tasks improving in performance, but I haven't seen it.
>
> - Luke
>
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