On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:28:41PM -0500, Alex J. Avriette wrote:
> The only reason I mentioned it to begin with was the recommendation of
> directio for databases in the Sun Blueprint, _Tuning Databases on the
> Solaris Platform_ (and being a Solaris geek, I asked, but apparently
> nobody else is worried enough about performance or not using Solaris
> enough to care).
That recommendation itself is a few years old. While it may still be
true that directio is still fastest for Oracle on Solaris, I'd sure
like to see some recent evidence. I've a funny feeling that this is
an old rule of thumb which is now true in the sense that everyone
believes it, but maybe not in the sense that a test would reveal it
to be a sensible rule.
> like to see some of the features of Oracle and DB2 available to users
> of postgres. Some of these features are raw disk, tablespaces, and
> replication. We're getting there, and making really terrific progress
I don't think we want features for their own sake, though, and I'm
not convinced that raw filesystems are actually useful. Course, it's
not my itch, and PostgreSQL _is_ free software.
A
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