| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL win32 fragmentation issue |
| Date: | 2006-12-02 16:36:04 |
| Message-ID: | 1165077364.18923.5.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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> Or more specifically do you have any idea what it means in terms of
> performance? And why do you say that you *have to* defrag under
> windows, isn't this only a performance issue and not necessarily a huge
> one at that? Also, as a solution, I would think that CLUSTER might help.
Yes it is a performance issue. And all performance issues if they can
not be resolved within the database or application, eventually become an
outage.
A CLUSTER may, but that puts us back to an outage. A CLUSTER is an
exclusive lock. Usually for long periods of time.
Joshua D. Drake
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> Matt
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