Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:11, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > I wouldn't totally discount using NFS for large databases. Believe it or
> > not, with an Oracle database and a Network Appliance for storage, NFS is
> > exactly what is used. We've found that we get better performance with a
> > (properly tuned) NFS mounted NetApp volume than with attached storage on
> > our HPUX box with several 100+GB databases.
>
> We've also tended to keep logs local on raid 1 and the data on a pair of
> custered netapps for PostgreSQL.

But large file support is not really an issue for the database itself,
since table files are split at 1Gb.  Unless that changes, the database
is not a problem.

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