On 19/04/10 16:00, Chris Jack wrote:
Because it's been discussed previously on this list, I thought I
might draw your attention to the newish generation of SSDs:
I'm not qualified to say
if they are reliable enough for production databases - but I would be
interested in opinions.
You might find it useful to rummage through the PostgreSQL mailing-list
archives.
http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/
The general opinion there is that the affordable systems are all a bit
vague on the subject of write-caching and what they guarantee in the
event of a power outage.
Having said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where
power-failure isn't an overriding worry. Index tablespace is an obvious
usage, as is temporary table/sort storage.
--
Richard Huxton
