Re: Blog post about Amazon Elastic Block Storage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John Cheng <jlcheng(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Blog post about Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Date: 2009-07-30 03:43:37
Message-ID: 4544.1248925417@sss.pgh.pa.us
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John Cheng <jlcheng(at)ymail(dot)com> writes:
> I know quite a number of people here, like myself, are intrigued by the prospect of running PostgreSQL on Amazon's EC. I thought this blog post on the performance of EBS was interesting, so I figure I'd share it with everybody.

> http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs/

7000 seeks per second? Somehow I don't believe that. Especially not
in tandem with the sub-megabyte-per-second throughput figures ...

regards, tom lane

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