Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
>> Just wonderin. What if you symlink WAL to a directory which is on
>> mounted USB RAM drive?
> USB 2.0 you mean? It supposedly runs at 1394 speeds, but USB 1.0/1.1
> runs at 1MB/s under ideal circumstances... that's slower than even old
> IDE drives.
>> Will that increase any throughput?
> Probably not...
Also, doesn't flash memory have a very limited lifetime in write cycles?
Using it as WAL, you'd wear it out PDQ.
regards, tom lane