Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Joseph S <jks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The question is what I do with my 14 drives. Should I use only 1 >> pair for indexes or should I use 4 drives? The wal logs are >> already slated for an SSD. > Why not just spread all your index data over 14 spindles, and do the > same with your table data? If you have the luxury of being able to test more than one configuration with something resembling your actual workload, I would strongly recommend including this as one of your configurations. Spreading everything over the larger number of spindles might well out-perform your most carefully hand-crafted tuning of object placement on smaller spindle sets. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
