Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 07/08/2016 07:44 AM, vincent wrote: > > > Op 7/8/2016 om 12:23 PM schreef Jean-David Beyer: >> Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up >> after a power failure? >> >> It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important >> database would have suitable

Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread Wes Vaske (wvaske)
6 AM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines... On 08/07/2016 13:23, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up > after a power failure? > > It seems to

Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread vincent
Op 7/8/2016 om 12:23 PM schreef Jean-David Beyer: Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up after a power failure? It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important database would have suitable backup power on their entire systems, including the disk

Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread Karl Denninger
On 7/8/2016 05:23, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up > after a power failure? Never had a power supply fail, have you? Or (accidentally) pull the wrong cord? :) > It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important > datab

Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread Thomas Samson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up > after a power failure? > > It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important > database would have suitable backup power on their entire systems, > in

Re: [PERFORM] Capacitors, etc., in hard drives and SSD for DBMS machines...

2016-07-08 Thread Levente Birta
On 08/07/2016 13:23, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up after a power failure? It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important database would have suitable backup power on their entire systems, including the disk drives