Re: Moving pg_xlog

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:48:51PM +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
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> Performance is the reason. You would benefit from moving pg_xlog to a
> different controller with its own write cache or to a different SSD with a
> write cache which is capacitor-backed. So in enterprise/server-class setups
> the above would boost the performance. Using the same SSD with a different
> partition won't give you much.

For performance, on-disk write pattern of data in pg_xlog is sequential
writes, while there will be likely random writes on the main data folder.