Re: [PERFORM] Hardware for PostgreSQL

From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng(at)wdc.com>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 23:53:02 EDT

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:58 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> 2) separate the transaction log from the database
>
> It's mostly written, and it's the most valuable data you have. And in
> case you use PITR, this is the only thing that really needs to be
> backed up.

My main DB datastore is in a raid1 array and the xlog is still maintained in a single OS drive. Is this considered OK?

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