Re: [GENERAL] Load balancing across disks

2007-01-29 Thread ff
> You are looking for tablespaces :). I don't doubt that he is. ... but wouldn't something as simple as RAID 1+0 give much of the same benefit (being able to distribute the IO load to more disks), but without the danger of incorrectly placing the table spaces? ---(end o

Re: [GENERAL] Load balancing across disks

2007-01-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:50:35 +0900, Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In order to balance disk load and ensure faster data access, my current > SQL server setup has the data spread across 3 physical disk devices. One > question I would like to know which I can't find in the docum

Re: [GENERAL] Load balancing across disks

2007-01-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Paul Lambert wrote: > Im in the process of finalising my conversion from M$ SQL server to > Postgres - all of which I'm very happy about so far. > > The database I work with has 37 tables, 5 of which run into the order of > tens of millions of records and approximately another 10 can run into > mi

Re: [GENERAL] Load balancing across disks

2007-01-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I.e. can I create a data file on D drive which holds tables a, b and > e, and a data file on E drive which holds tables c, d and f. > > If this is possible, could someone point me to some documentation so I > can experiment a little. Read the doc section

[GENERAL] Load balancing across disks

2007-01-28 Thread Paul Lambert
Im in the process of finalising my conversion from M$ SQL server to Postgres - all of which I'm very happy about so far. The database I work with has 37 tables, 5 of which run into the order of tens of millions of records and approximately another 10 can run into millions depending on the size