On January 16, 2004 11:53 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Monday, January 12, 2004 13:45:45 -0800 Shankar K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > We are considering to use NetApp filer for a highly > > busy 24*7 postgres database and the reason we chose > I run a (not very busy) PG cluster on a NetAPP.
I run a very busy PG installation on one. > It seems to do just fine. Ditto. > The issue is the speed of the network connection. In my case it's only > FastEthernet (100BaseTX). If it's very busy, you may need to look > at GigE. With the price of GigE adapters I wouldn't consider anything else. I have a huge database that takes about an hour to copy. The netApp snapshot feature is very nice because I can get a "moment in time" image of the database. Even though I can't run from the snapshot because it is read only (*) and PG needs to write to files just to open the database, I can copy it and get a runnable version of the DB. If I copy directly from the original I can get many changes while copying and wind up with a copy that will not run. (*): It would be nice if PG had a flag that allowed a database to be opened in read only mode without touching anything in the directory. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
