On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the hyperbole; I should have qualified that ridiculous > statement with "...on my machines." No doubt the problem has something > to do with configuration, because I don't know much about that. One of > my machines is running PG 8.1 on Linux Fedora Core 5. It's got an AMD > 64bit CPU with a GB RAM and plenty of normal disk space
You'll have to expand on the disk space thing ... the problem with updates is all the random I/O when adding tuples to all the indexes. A good RAID controller with write-back cache makes updates a lot less painful. -- Alan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
