[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The real question - and I believe Tom and others have correctly harped > on it in the past is - is it worth it? Until somebody actually pulls > up their sleeves, invests a month or more of their life to it, and > does it, we really won't know. And even then, the cost of maintenance > would have to be considered. Who is going to keep up-to-date on > theoretical storage models? What happens when generic file system > levels again surpass the first attempt? > > Personally, I believe it would be worth it - but only to a few. And > these most of these few are likely using Oracle. So, no gain unless > you can convince them to switch back... :-)
We do know that the benefit for commercial databases that use raw and file system storage is that raw storage is only a few percentage points faster. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
