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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> wrote:
> If you are doing batch inserts of data, and want to have reporting queries
> concurrently running, make sure you have the pg_xlogs on a different disk
> than the data/indexes.   2 drives RAID 1 for OS + xlogs works great (and