Re: SSDs with Postgresql?

* Michael Nolan:

> If you archive your WAL files, wouldn't that give you a pretty good
> indication of write activity?

WAL archiving may increase WAL traffic considerably, I think.  Fresh
table contents (after CREATE TABLE or TRUNCATE) is written to the log
if WAL archiving is active.  This would have a significant performance
impact on some of our loads.

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