Steve, > I'm used to performance tuning on a select-heavy database, but this > will have a very different impact on the system. Does anyone have any > experience with an update heavy system, and have any performance hints > or hardware suggestions?
Minimal/no indexes on the table(s). Raise checkpoint_segments and consider using commit_siblings/commit_delay if it's a multi-stream application. Figure out ways to do inserts instead of updates where possible, and COPY instead of insert, where possible. Put your WAL on its own disk resource. I'm a little curious as to what kind of app would be 95% writes. A log? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])