Azure?

Hi all

I was at a Microsoft Azure event yesterday (hey, don't blame me, the
beer was on Microsoft) and was surprised by how open Azure appears to be.

Given the reports of unsatisfactory to miserable performance I see here
from people running Pg on EC2, I'm curious about whether anyone's fired
up an Azure VM (Linux or Windows) and done some tests, focusing
particularly on crash-safety, fsync rates, and I/O performance. If not,
I might have to have a play.

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Craig Ringer