>>>>> "mlw" == mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
mlw> Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> Now, I'd like to have PGDATA in a ram disk (we're only >> expecting a maximum
of10-15Mb of data). The problem is if the >> machine is being reset (hardware vice) or if it crashes. Then >> the
ramdisk is lost. This is where PGDATA2 comes into play...
mlw> Why bother with a RAM disk? If you only have a few megabytes, mlw> why not just allocate a large number of
buffersto mlw> PostgreSQL.
Seems like I have to. I couldn't reproduce the success, so :)
Must have been having a stale process or something with the original
db in place...
I'll try this out and see if we can speed things up that way. Thanx.
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