Mark, > I have done that before actually, when the tablespace patch came out. I > was able to get almost 40% more throughput with half the drives than > striping all the disks together.
That's not the figures you showed me. In your report last year it was 14%, not 40%. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match