On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:48:57PM +1000, Ondrej Ivanič wrote: > Hi, > > On 16 August 2012 15:40, J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As you said, MySQL with MyISAM is better choice for my app. Because I don't > > need transaction/backup. May be I'll try with InnoDB and find the disk > > write/space difference. Is there any similar methods available in postgresql > > like MyISAM engine ? > > You can try unlogged tables: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createtable.html > > If specified, the table is created as an unlogged table. Data written > to unlogged tables is not written to the write-ahead log (see Chapter > 29), which makes them considerably faster than ordinary tables. > However, they are not crash-safe: an unlogged table is automatically > truncated after a crash or unclean shutdown. The contents of an > unlogged table are also not replicated to standby servers. Any indexes > created on an unlogged table are automatically unlogged as well; > however, unlogged GiST indexes are currently not supported and cannot > be created on an unlogged table.
I would set full_page_writes = off too. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
