On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:28:41PM -0500, Alex J. Avriette wrote: > The only reason I mentioned it to begin with was the recommendation of > directio for databases in the Sun Blueprint, _Tuning Databases on the > Solaris Platform_ (and being a Solaris geek, I asked, but apparently > nobody else is worried enough about performance or not using Solaris > enough to care).
That recommendation itself is a few years old. While it may still be true that directio is still fastest for Oracle on Solaris, I'd sure like to see some recent evidence. I've a funny feeling that this is an old rule of thumb which is now true in the sense that everyone believes it, but maybe not in the sense that a test would reveal it to be a sensible rule. > like to see some of the features of Oracle and DB2 available to users > of postgres. Some of these features are raw disk, tablespaces, and > replication. We're getting there, and making really terrific progress I don't think we want features for their own sake, though, and I'm not convinced that raw filesystems are actually useful. Course, it's not my itch, and PostgreSQL _is_ free software. A -- Andrew Sullivan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
