Re: Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql?

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:

>     What? PostgreSQL is slower on RAID? Care to define that better?
>
> up to 8.3 it was massively slower on raid1 (software raid on linux),
> starting from 8.3 things got lot lot better (we speak 3x speed
> improvement here), but it still isn't same as on 'plain' drive.
>

Slower on RAID1 than what and doing what?

Joshua D. Drake