Re: High Disk write and space taken by PostgreSQL

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От Bruce Momjian
Тема Re: High Disk write and space taken by PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 20120816162303.GC8359@momjian.us
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Ответ на Re: High Disk write and space taken by PostgreSQL  ("anarazel@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:07:26PM +0200, anarazel@anarazel.de wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> schrieb:
>
> >On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:48:57PM +1000, Ondrej Ivanič wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 16 August 2012 15:40, J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1977@gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> > As you said, MySQL with MyISAM is better choice for my app. Because
> >I don't
> >> > need transaction/backup. May be I'll try with InnoDB and find the
> >disk
> >> > write/space difference. Is there any similar methods available in
> >postgresql
> >> > like MyISAM engine ?
> >>
> >> You can try unlogged tables:
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createtable.html
> >>
> >> If specified, the table is created as an unlogged table. Data written
> >> to unlogged tables is not written to the write-ahead log (see Chapter
> >> 29), which makes them considerably faster than ordinary tables.
> >> However, they are not crash-safe: an unlogged table is automatically
> >> truncated after a crash or unclean shutdown. The contents of an
> >> unlogged table are also not replicated to standby servers. Any
> >indexes
> >> created on an unlogged table are automatically unlogged as well;
> >> however, unlogged GiST indexes are currently not supported and cannot
> >> be created on an unlogged table.
> >
> >I would set full_page_writes = off too.
> Why? There shouldn't be any such writes on unlogged tables.

True.  I was thinking more of the logged tables, and the system tables.

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