Re: portable version for Usb Pen

On 4/24/2014 5:33 AM, Oscar Calderon wrote:
> First of all, you have to format your USB as NTFS instead FAT or FAT32
> because NTFS has some features needed by PostgreSQL according to this
> link:

and now you have a HUGE problem. the postgres server has to run as a
dedicated user, and that user will have a different UUID on each system
you plug this portable stick into. oh, and as a non-administrator, you
can't create said user.

anyways, the whole idea is bad. postgres does a LOT of 8k block random
writes. USB flash memory absolutely HATES random writes, and will burn
itself out in short order, meanwhile running at molasses slow speeds.

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