> If I could get and deploy some SSD (Solid State Disk) devices that > would make this sort of thing *actually safe,* I'd expect that to be a > pretty fabulous improvement, at least for write-heavy database > activity.
Not nearly as much as you would expect. For the price of the SSD and a SCSI controller capable of keeping up to the SSD along with your regular storage with enough throughput to keep up to structure IO, you can purchase a pretty good mid-range SAN which will be just as capable and much more versatile. -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org