On 8/21/07, Sachchida Ojha <sojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are having only two disk (40GB each). One disk is used for OS, App > Server, and application. Second disk is used for postgresql database. > It's a dual cpu machine having 2 GB of ram. Even a single disk, with a battery backed caching controller will generally run things like updates and inserts much faster, and is usually a much better performance under load than a single disk. I'd at least look at mirroring them for redundancy and better read performance. ---------------------------(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