Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane escribió: >> It would only be useful to have one per spindle-dedicated-to-WAL, so >> tying the division to databases doesn't seem like it'd be a good idea.
> Keep in mind that there are claims that a write-cache-enabled > battery-backed RAID controller negates the effect of a separate spindle. Possibly true, but if that's the underlying hardware then there's no performance benefit in breaking WAL up at all, no? > My point, rather, is that with this sort of setup it would be easier to > do per-database PITR shipping, and one database's WAL activity would not > affect another's (thus hosting providers are happier -- high-rate > customer A need not affect low-budget customer B). You won't get far with that because of the shared catalogs. In particular, most DDL operations these days touch pg_shdepend ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster