robertngo@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Ngo) writes: > How about i have one SAN storage for the slony master node and > another SAN to be share by slave nodes that only do SELECT? That seems like a reasonable sort of idea... > Can Dell|EMC AX100i iscsi san with sata drive serve as storage for > postgresql server, will there be problem in I/O performance? I would imagine that the SAN would provide better I/O performance than having a couple of IDE drives; whether you'll have a "problem in I/O performance" depends heavily on what kind of load the system will experience. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html "Linux is only free if your time has no value." -- Jamie Zawinski ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly