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Re: Maximum Possible Insert Performance?

Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>

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From: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
To: William Yu <wyu@talisys.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-25T06:06:50Z
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William Yu wrote:

> This is an intriguing thought which leads me to think about a similar 
> solution for even a production server and that's a solid state drive for 
> just the WAL. What's the max disk space the WAL would ever take up? 
> There's quite a few 512MB/1GB/2GB solid state drives available now in 
> the ~$200-$500 range and if you never hit those limits...

Maximum number of WAL segments at any time in 2*(number of checkpoint 
segments)+1 IIRC.

So if you have 3 checkpoint segments, you can not have more than 7 WAL segments 
at any time. Give or take 1.

Correct me if I am wrong..

  Shridhar