>Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
> But, I think that's one of the reasons people usually recommend
> putting WAL separate. Even if it's just another partition on the
> same (set of) disk(s), you get the benefit of not having to wait
> for all the dirty ext3 pages from your whole database FS to be
> flushed before the WAL write can complete on it's own FS.
[slaps forehead]
I've been puzzling about why we're getting timeouts on one of two
apparently identical (large) servers. We forgot to move the pg_xlog
directory to the separate mount point we created for it on the same
RAID. I didn't think to check that until I saw your post.
-Kevin