Re: Raw Device Support

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On 09/04/2010 01:59 PM, Majid Azimi wrote:
> >    hi guys.
> >
> > Does postgreSQl support raw partitions?
> >
> >
> In Postgres, each table is a file. That means that Postgres needs a file
> system. Raw devices are not supported. Unfortunately, direct I/O is not
> supported either.

We do support direct i/o for the write-ahead logs (WAL).

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