"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sure, bash Microsoft it's easy. But it doesn't address the point, is > a database safe on top of a compressed file system and if not, why? It is certainly *less* safe than it is on top of an uncompressed filesystem. Any given hardware failure will affect more stored bits (if the compression is effective) in a less predictable way. If you assume that hardware failure rates are below your level of concern, this doesn't matter. But DBAs are paid to be paranoid. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
