On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@xxxxxxx> wrote: > swampler@xxxxxxxx (Steve Wampler) writes: >> Or does losing WAL files mandate a new initdb? > > Losing WAL would mandate initdb, so I'd think this all fits into the > set of stuff worth putting onto ramfs/tmpfs. Certainly it'll all be > significant to the performance focus. why is that? isn't simply execute pg_resetxlog enough? specially 'cause OP doesn't care about loosing some transactions -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance