From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: big database performance
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:50:58 -0800
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:16:48 -0800
Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Adrian Moisey
> <adrian@careerjunction.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > Also, we're running the db on ext3 with noatime. Should I look at
> > changing or getting rid of journaling ?
>
> No (unless you like really long fsck times). data=writeback is safe
> with PostgreSQL, though.
>
Except :)... for pg_xlog. If you have pg_xlog on a different partition,
feel free to run ext2 for it.
Joshua D. Drake
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