Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just wonderin. What if you symlink WAL to a directory which is on >> mounted USB RAM drive?
> USB 2.0 you mean? It supposedly runs at 1394 speeds, but USB 1.0/1.1 > runs at 1MB/s under ideal circumstances... that's slower than even old > IDE drives. >> Will that increase any throughput? > Probably not... Also, doesn't flash memory have a very limited lifetime in write cycles? Using it as WAL, you'd wear it out PDQ. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org