On 12/2/06,
Joshua D. Drake <
jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 13:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > My concern is that this is over a single bench run. I could imagine that
> > after a week or two weeks of stead PostgreSQL use, the IO would
> > gradually get worse and worse.
>
> Well, we mostly do random reads (seek) all the time anyway, so is this
> really a concern?
Wouldn't it be for writes?
Also, huge index range scans can be badly affected by file level fragmentation.
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