Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Maybe we need to actively discourage people from running Postgres
>> against NFS-mounted data directories.

> It's hard to reconcile this with the real-world performance of
> PostgreSQL on NFS, which is happening all over the place.  Most notably,
> Joe Conway's 20,000 txn/sec.

This is not a question of performance, it is a question of whether you
are willing to tolerate corner-case misbehaviors.

            regards, tom lane