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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Testing Sandforce SSD
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:24:00 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:23:20PM -0600, Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
>I know I'm talking development now but is there a case for a pg_xlog block
>device to remove the file system overhead and guaranteeing your data is
>written sequentially every time?

If you dedicate a partition to xlog, you already get that in practice 
with no extra devlopment.

Mike Stone



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