From: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Configuration Recommendations
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:08:11 -0000
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In-Reply-To: <CAM9pMnPUdcm1JJ75VnUaf6=JZWDvooNd+bOuYeJ_mJq6WSAKTA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Is it established practice in the Postgres world to separate indexes
> from tables? I would assume that the reasoning of Richard Foote -
> albeit for Oracle databases - is also true for Postgres:
Yes, it's an established practice. I'd call it something just short of
a best practice though, as it really depends on your situation. I'd
take those articles with a grain of salt, as they are very
Oracle-specific (e.g. we do not have fat indexes (yet!), nor segments).
I also find his examples a bit contrived, and the whole "multi-user"
argument irrelevant for common cases. I lean towards using separate
tablespaces in Postgres, as the performance outweighs the additional
complexity. It's down on the tuning list however: much more important
is getting your kernel/volumes configured correctly, allocating
shared_buffers sanely, separating pg_xlog, etc.
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