Re: RAID + PostgreSQL?

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RAID + PostgreSQL?
Date: 2006-07-06 20:24:43
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Alex Turner wrote:

> As an aside note, I would consider a 13 disk RAID 5 a high risk
> solution. If you loose just two drives of 13 at the same time, your
> data is all gone. If you loose one drive, your array goes into degraded
> mode and your read and write performance goes to hell, and your machine

Well we have a hot standby disk.

> Second thing might be to post an explain analyze so that we can have a
> look at the query and see what's up. May be some of the tunning gurus
> can give good hints on things missing, like indexes and analyzingness,
> or general query structure.

Oh it is using indexes, but it is still painfully slow.

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