Re: Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen(at)etf(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)yu>
Cc: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production
Date: 2009-04-13 16:44:54
Message-ID: dcc563d10904130944v7c0d6729x8d4a4c3c650d9c8e@mail.gmail.com
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2009/4/13 Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen(at)etf(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)yu>:
> Hi all,
>
> First, thank you all for your answers.
>
>
> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to
>> put on it.
>
> It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size
> of the database should be around 1GB, half being binary data (images). Not
> more than 100 users at the time will be working with the application.
>
> I don't worry about the performance, but more about the maintenance under
> Windows. What file system to use? How to schedule vacuuming and backup? Are
> there any windows services that should be turned off? Those questions come
> to my mind when I consider new OS for the RDBMS.

NTFS, use autovacuum, backup nightly (?), Turn off anti-virus software.

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