Re: WAL directory size calculation

Il 28/07/2016 15:54, Andreas Kretschmer ha scritto:
> Am 28.07.2016 um 15:25 schrieb Moreno Andreo:
>> Hi folks! :-)
>> I'm about to bring up my brand new production server and I was
>> wondering if it's possible to calculate (approx.) the WAL directory
>> size.
>> I have to choose what's better in terms of cost vs. performance (we
>> are on Google Cloud Platform) between a ramdisk or a separate
>> persistent disk. Obviously ramdisk will be times faster disk, but
>> having a, say, 512 GB ramdisk will be a little too expensive :-)
>>
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> Don't use a RAM-Disk for WAL! DON'T! NEVER!
OK OK OK, got the point...... :-)

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> You really need only some GB, if you are using Replication. Without
> Replication 1 GB would be fine, even with replication. But it must be
> realible!
I'll get what seems to be the minumum persistent disk in size among GCP,
10 GB. Thanks!

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> Andreas
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