Re: High Disk write and space taken by PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Ondrej Ivanič <ondrej(dot)ivanic(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1977(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High Disk write and space taken by PostgreSQL
Date: 2012-08-16 14:53:21
Message-ID: 20120816145321.GA8359@momjian.us
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:48:57PM +1000, Ondrej Ivanič wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16 August 2012 15:40, J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1977(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > As you said, MySQL with MyISAM is better choice for my app. Because I don't
> > need transaction/backup. May be I'll try with InnoDB and find the disk
> > write/space difference. Is there any similar methods available in postgresql
> > like MyISAM engine ?
>
> You can try unlogged tables:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createtable.html
>
> 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;
> however, unlogged GiST indexes are currently not supported and cannot
> be created on an unlogged table.

I would set full_page_writes = off too.

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