Bruce Momjian wrote: > Well, now the chapter is about WAL and reliability, so I thought > reliability hit both topics. Also, maybe we should consider moving > this FAQ item into the docs: > > <H3><A name="3.7">3.7</A>) What computer hardware should I > use?</H3>
Hardware choice and configuration are important topics, but neither of these are strongly tied to either WAL or Reliability. Reliability is the property (not a "feature") of a system to do what you meant for it to do. Certainly WAL contributes to that by increasing tolerance against hardware failures, but it still seems to be a rather far-fetched connection to pair these two. I could see hardware issues being discussed in chapter 16, since we already have operating system and kernel configuration there, and it's the chapter a user will read when setting up a server system. I was never all that happy with the WAL chapter, since, as you say, it doesn't seem to be a first-class user-level feature. I'd be happy to integrate it into another chapter, but I'm not sure where. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
