Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?
Date: 2007-06-17 05:19:31
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.0706170113010.29262@westnet.com
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Anyway... databases are always(?) IO bound. I'd try to figure out how to
> make a bigger hose (or more hoses) between the spindles and the mobo.

What I keep waiting for is the drives with flash memory built-in to
mature. I would love to get reliable writes that use the drive's cache
for instant fsyncs, instead of right now where you have to push all that
to the controller level.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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