Re: Postgresql Database and PG_WAL locations

From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgresql Database and PG_WAL locations
Date: 2024-08-29 19:14:42
Message-ID: 28DDFA5C-0EB6-4366-B61D-6DA19B126369@elevated-dev.com
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> On Aug 29, 2024, at 1:02 PM, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Is that recommendation still valid? After all, that was written when 15 years old Sun Studio 12 was still pertinent. Times have changed since then. Disks are much, much bigger.

We still have WAL and data having the same data written (at somewhat different times), so it's still useful to give them separate bandwidth to storage--for databases with high write loads.

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