Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com> writes:
> What would you do if you had a solid state hdd to use and you wanted
> to speed up PostgreSQL?
"Put WAL on it" is certainly the default answer.
If you are mainly concerned about speeding up writes, then this is also
the correct answer. If you are mainly worried about read performance
then you might instead investigate pushing some critical tables/indexes
onto it.
regards, tom lane