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creating a ramdisk to use for postgres
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# create ramdisk of 500MB (500 x 2048)
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1024000`
# create pg tablespace to use ramdisk
psql -c "CREATE TABLESPACE ramdisk LOCATION '/Volumes/ramdisk/'" postgres
# delete ramdisk
hdiutil eject /Volumes/ramdisk/
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