Re: ZFS and Postgresql - WASRe: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-09 Thread david
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Jignesh Shah wrote: But we still pay the penalty on WAL while writing them in the first place I guess .. Is there an option to disable it.. I can test how much is the impact I guess couple of %s but good to verify :-) ) on modern CPU's where the CPU is significantly faster

Re: ZFS and Postgresql - WASRe: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-09 Thread Jignesh Shah
But we still pay the penalty on WAL while writing them in the first place I guess .. Is there an option to disable it.. I can test how much is the impact I guess couple of %s but good to verify :-) ) Regards, Jignesh Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jignesh Shah escribió: Now comes the thing that

Re: ZFS and Postgresql - WASRe: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jignesh Shah escribió: > Now comes the thing that I am still exploring > * Do we do checksum in WAL ? I guess we do .. Which means that we are > now doing double checksumming on the data. One in ZFS and one in > postgresql. ZFS does allow checksumming to be turned off (but on new > blocks alloc

ZFS and Postgresql - WASRe: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-09 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hello Ian, I have done some testing with postgresql and ZFS on Solaris 10 11/06. While I work for Sun, I dont claim to be a ZFS expert (for that matter not even Solaris or PostgreSQL). Lets first look at the scenarios of how postgresql can be deployed on Solaris First the Solaris Options 1.