Re: [GENERAL] PG over NFS tips

2004-08-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Cott Lang wrote: The higher-ups are attempting to force me to run Postgres over NFS at least temporarily. Despite giving me a queasy feeling and reading quite a bit of messages advising against it, running Oracle over NFS with a NAS filer doesn't seem to be unusual. Is there a reason PG would be

Re: [GENERAL] PG over NFS tips

2004-08-05 Thread Cott Lang
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 07:37, Tom Lane wrote: > No --- the issues are not with Postgres per se but with the reliability > of your NFS setup. On top of the not-infinite reliability of disk drive > hardware you now have to stack risk of failure of the NAS machine itself, > network problems, and misc

[GENERAL] PG over NFS tips

2004-08-05 Thread Cott Lang
The higher-ups are attempting to force me to run Postgres over NFS at least temporarily. Despite giving me a queasy feeling and reading quite a bit of messages advising against it, running Oracle over NFS with a NAS filer doesn't seem to be unusual. Is there a reason PG would be more sensitive th

Re: [GENERAL] PG over NFS tips

2004-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The higher-ups are attempting to force me to run Postgres over NFS at > least temporarily. > Despite giving me a queasy feeling and reading quite a bit of messages > advising against it, running Oracle over NFS with a NAS filer doesn't > seem to be unusual.