Re: big database performance

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:16:48 -0800
Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Adrian Moisey
> <adrian(at)careerjunction(dot)co(dot)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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