On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Should this be summarized somewhere in our docs; just a few lines with the tradeoffs, direct storage = cheaper, faster, SAN = more configurable?
I think it's kind of stetching the PostgreSQL documentation to be covering that. It's hard to generalize here without giving a fair amount of background and caveats--that last message was about as compact a commentary on this as I could come up with. One of the things I was hoping to push into the community documentation one day was a larger look at disk layout than covers this, RAID issues, and related topics (this got started at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.64 but stalled).
What's nice about putting it into a web-only format is that it's easy to hyperlink heavily into the archives to recommend specific discussion threads of the issues for reference, which isn't practical in the manual.
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