Re: Maximum Possible Insert Performance?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: William Yu <wyu@talisys.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-24T17:25:58Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
William,

> When my current job batch is done, I'll save a copy of the dir and give
> the WAL on ramdrive a test. And perhaps even buy a Sandisk at the local
> store and run that through the hooper.

We'll be interested in the results.   The Sandisk won't be much of a 
performance test; last I checked, their access speed was about 1/2 that of a 
fast SCSI drive.   But it could be a feasability test for the more expensive 
RAMdrive approach.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco