Re: restoring a shadow

>>>>> "mlw" == mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:

mlw> Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>> Now, I'd like to have PGDATA in a ram disk (we're only
>> expecting a maximum of 10-15Mb of data). The problem is if the
>> machine is being reset (hardware vice) or if it crashes. Then
>> the ram disk is lost. This is where PGDATA2 comes into play...

mlw> Why bother with a RAM disk? If you only have a few megabytes,
mlw> why not just allocate a large number of buffers to
mlw> PostgreSQL.

Seems like I have to. I couldn't reproduce the success, so :)

Must have been having a stale process or something with the original
db in place...

I'll try this out and see if we can speed things up that way. Thanx.

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