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Re: SSDs with Postgresql?

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* Greg Smith:

> The fact that every row update can temporarily use more than 8K means
> that actual write throughput on the WAL can be shockingly large.  The
> smallest customer I work with regularly has a 50GB database, yet they
> write 20GB of WAL every day.  You can imagine how much WAL is
> generated daily on systems with terabyte databases.

Interesting.  Is there an easy way to monitor WAL traffic in away?  It
does not have to be finegrained, but it might be helpful to know if
we're doing 10 GB, 100 GB or 1 TB of WAL traffic on a particular
database, should the question of SSDs ever come up.

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