Re: Advice request: Postgresql setup for flash memories.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Enrique Arizón <e_arizon_benito(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Advice request: Postgresql setup for flash memories.
Date: 2006-08-27 21:45:16
Message-ID: 12001.1156715116@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Enrique=20Ariz=F3n?= <e_arizon_benito(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> since flash memory hardware is dropping prices at
> high rate I was planning to test how Postgresql runs
> in such hardware.

This is probably a bad idea, unless the number-of-write-cycles
limitation of flash memory has gone away while I wasn't looking.
PG is pretty piggy as far as rewriting disk pages goes, especially
for the WAL files.

regards, tom lane

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