Re: What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?

From: Mark Roberts <mailing_lists(at)pandapocket(dot)com>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
Cc: Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com>, justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amber <guxiaobo1982(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?
Date: 2008-08-19 17:01:30
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On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 07:34 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> In theory, you can have so many disks that the bottleneck moves to
> some
> other location, such as the IO bus or memory or the CPU, but I've
> never
> heard of that happening to anyone. Also, you want to get fast, high-
> quality disks, as 10 15,000 RPM disks are going to perform better than
> 10 7,200 RPM disks.

I've personally experienced this happening.

-Mark

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