Josh Berkus wrote: > Jan, > > In my experience (a lot of MS SQL, more MS Access than I want to talk about, > and a little Oracle) corruption failures on single-file databases are more > frequent than databases which depend on the host OS, and such failures are > much more severe when the occur. >
Vadim seemed to think differently: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=00030722102200.00601%40lorc.wgcr.org&rnum=9&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3DVadim%2Bsingle%2Bfile%2Bpostgres In addition to Jan's points, using a single pre-allocated file also reduces file descriptor consumption, although I don't know what the costs are regarding maintaining the LRU of file descriptors, the price of opens and closes, the price of having a high upper limit of file descriptors, etc. Just because Oracle and MS do something doesn't necessary make it wrong. :-) Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
