Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Keaton Adams" <kadams(at)mxlogic(dot)com> writes:
> After reading several articles on the performance drag that Linux atime
> has on file systems we would like to mount our DB volumes with the
> noatime parameter to see just what type of a performance gain we will
> achieve.  Does PostgreSQL use atime in any way when reading/writing
> data?

No --- go for it, and let us know what you see.

			regards, tom lane