From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Pierre Barre <pierre@barre.sh>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL on S3-backed Block Storage with Near-Local Performance
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:41:37 -0500
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<3345416f84147603587ff8656cc3ac95b6787744.camel@cybertec.at>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 06:40:58AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-07-18 at 00:57 +0200, Pierre Barre wrote:
> > Looking forward to your feedback and questions!
>
> I think the biggest hurdle you will have to overcome is to
> convince notoriously paranoid DBAs that this tall stack
> provides reliable service, honors fsync() etc.
Is there a test suite that can be used to test PG's ACIDity in the face
of simulated power failures?
> Performance is great, but it is not everything. If things
> perform surprisingly well, people become suspicious.
+1
> > P.S. The full project includes a custom NFS filesystem too.
>
> "NFS" is a key word that does not inspire confidence in
> PostgreSQL circles...
Certainly NFSv3 should. NFSv4 is much safer but I've no experience
running PG on it and I assume there will be cases where recovery from
network and/or server failures is slow.
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