Re: Two hard drives --- what to do with them?

A related question:
Is it sufficient to disable write cache only on the disk where pg_xlog
is located? Or should write cache be disabled on both disks?

Thanks
Peter

On 2/25/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Carlos Moreno <moreno_pg(at)mochima(dot)com> writes:
> > The question is: does PostgreSQL have separate, independent areas that
> > require storage such that performance would be noticeably boosted if
> > the multiple storage operations could be done simultaneously?
>
> The standard advice in this area is to put pg_xlog on a separate
> spindle; although that probably is only important for update-intensive
> applications. You did not tell us anything about your application...
>
> regards, tom lane
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