Re: PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance problems on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance problems on Windows
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Msg-id 555F688B.9030204@agliodbs.com
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In response to PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance problems on Windows  (Jan Gunnar Dyrset <jan.g.dyrset@cybernetica.no>)
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On 05/21/2015 01:39 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-05-21 11:54:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> This has been talked about as a feature, but would require major work on
>> PostgreSQL to make it possible.  You'd be looking at several months of
>> effort by a really good hacker, and then a whole bunch of performance
>> testing.  If you have the budget for this, then please let's talk about
>> it because right now nobody is working on it.
>
> I think this is overestimating the required effort quite a bit. While
> not trivial, it's also not that complex to make this work.

Well, then, maybe someone should hack and test it ...

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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