On Monday 19 February 2007 05:26, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure PostgresQL to use raw disk partition, like > Oracle does? > If not - is there any recommendation for favourite filesystem type to use?
Most certainly not. PostgreSQL relies on the OS and FileSystems it inhabits for all I/O operations. Raw partition are not worth the extra effort anycase on an OS such as linux which is already efficient with files and extents of those files. If you want you can use XFS to increase efficiency at the expense of more chance for data loss in case of a crash since it has a large caching mechanisms. You can also use raid to increase performance. Additionally you may try to put the transactions log, which is the bottleneck in databases, on a ram memory that is backed by a battery. I think i saw a battery PCI card at asus for 50$. Add 128mb ram and you are good to go. > > So far google'ing around haven't revealed anything about the subject. > > And BTW - I found the following link which also mentions procedures to > convert MS Access databases to Psql: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.3 > > Cheers, > > --Amos -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
