Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Well, now the chapter is about WAL and reliability, so I thought
> reliability hit both topics. Also, maybe we should consider moving
> this FAQ item into the docs:
>
> <H3><A name="3.7">3.7</A>) What computer hardware should I
> use?</H3>
Hardware choice and configuration are important topics, but neither of
these are strongly tied to either WAL or Reliability. Reliability is
the property (not a "feature") of a system to do what you meant for it
to do. Certainly WAL contributes to that by increasing tolerance
against hardware failures, but it still seems to be a rather
far-fetched connection to pair these two.
I could see hardware issues being discussed in chapter 16, since we
already have operating system and kernel configuration there, and it's
the chapter a user will read when setting up a server system.
I was never all that happy with the WAL chapter, since, as you say, it
doesn't seem to be a first-class user-level feature. I'd be happy to
integrate it into another chapter, but I'm not sure where.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/