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From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
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Subject: Re: availability of SATA vendors
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> A valid question.  Does the caching raid controller negate the desire to 
> separate pg_xlog from PGDATA?

Theoretically, yes. But I don't think I've seen any hard numbers from
testing.
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