Re: PostgreSQL win32 fragmentation issue

From: "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL win32 fragmentation issue
Date: 2006-12-03 08:56:34
Message-ID: 65937bea0612030056s2816d005ibac887ef0e8f5dae@mail.gmail.com
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On 12/2/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)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.

Regards,

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