On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This is especially true in that you can reduce downtime. A lot of times downtime costs as much as anything else. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
