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candiddevmike 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to get the most out of Postgres memory setting...

Why did you choose to run PG on ZFS? DBs on CoW FS aren't usually ideal.

rtp4me 8 months ago [–]

We were running very large storage volumes in Azure (+2TB) and wanted to leverage ZFS compression to save money. After running some performance testing, we landed on a good balance of PGSQL and ZFS options that worked well for us.

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