Re: tablespace to benefit from ssd ?

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:42:41AM +0100, Nicolas PARIS wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have both hdd and ssd disk on the postgres server. The cluster is
> right now created on the hdd only. I am considering using a tablespace
> to put some highly used postgres object on the ssd disk. Of course the
> ssd is small compared to the hdd, and I need to choose carefully what
> objects are stored on that side.
>
> I am wondering what kind of object (indexes, data) would benefit from
> ssd. The database primary/foreign keys are highly used and there is
> almost no sequencial scan. However the server has a large amount of ram
> memory and I suspect all of those indexes are already cached in ram.
>
> I have read that tablespaces introduce overhead of maintenance and
> introduce complication for replication. But on the other hand I have
> this ssd disk ready for something.

To start with, you can:
ALTER SYSTEM SET temp_tablespaces='ssd';

That will improve speed of sorts which spill to disk (if any).

+1 to using LVM for purposes of instrumentation.

You can also:
ALTER TABLESPACE ssd SET (random_page_cost=1.0);

It'd be difficult to suggest anything further without knowing about your
workload or performance goals or issues.

--
Justin