On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Stef Telford wrote:
Good UPS, a warm PITR standby, offsite backups and regular checks is "good enough" for me, and really, that's what it all comes down to. Mitigating risk and factors into an 'acceptable' amount for each person. However, if you see over a 2x improvement from turning write-cache 'on' and have everything else in place, well, that seems like a 'no-brainer' to me, at least ;)
In that case, buying a battery-backed-up cache in the RAID controller would be even more of a no-brainer.
Matthew -- If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
