Jeff Janes wrote: >>> All that said, there has always been a recommendation of caution around >>> using NFS as a backing store for PG, or any RDBMS.. >> >> I know that Oracle recommends it - they even built an NFS client >> into their database server to make the most of it. > > Last I heard (which has been a while), Oracle supported specific brand named implementations of NFS, > and warned against any others on a data integrity basis. I couldn't find any detailed information, but it seems that only certain NFS devices are supported. > Why would they implement their own client? Did they have to do something special in their client to > make it safe? I think it is mostly a performance issue. Each backend mounts its own copy of the data files it needs. Yours, Laurenz Albe
