On 2008-10-31 09:01, Christian Schröder wrote: > We will now move the database to a raid5 > (which should be faster than the raid1) This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1. You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for even faster but unreliable. Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general