some externalernals

[guenter geiger]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Iain Mott wrote:
> DSP - to lend a little more CPU time to Postgres. I'm no expert on Pgres -
> but I suppose there must be other ways to speed up response - holding data
> in RAM perhaps?
> 

hmmm, using a ramdisk for the database ?
postgres has a tremendous slowdown, because for security reasons it syncs
every single byte to the disk when writing. There is a way to turn it off, 
but I can't remember how.

Guenter