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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Postgresql Database and PG_WAL locations
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:02:54 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaBPFm5wjGRuzC8Ywh1=uaeg4BRunhFGgruoy1e-ZxR2Cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM Matthew Tice <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2024, at 12:18 PM, Henry Ashu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a database that's about 2TB in size, and I want to place the
> database files in a separate mount point(PGDATA) and the log files in a
> different mount point(PG_WAL). What's your take on this?.
>
>
> Take a look at
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Installation_and_Administration_Best_practices
>
> Essentially, yes, you will want your WAL and data stored on different
> devices (or the very least, different partitions).
>

Is that recommendation still valid?  After all, that was written when *15
years old* Sun Studio 12 was still pertinent.  Times have changed since
then.  Disks are much, *much* bigger.

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