| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Craig James <craig_james(at)emolecules(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Block at a time ... |
| Date: | 2010-03-22 21:25:07 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e1003221425i5ed0dd75x9203780cff236701@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> wrote:
> Its fairly easy to break. Just do a parallel import with say, 16 concurrent tables being written to at once. Result? Fragmented tables.
>
Fwiw I did do some investigation about this at one point and could not
demonstrate any significant fragmentation. But that was on Linux --
different filesystem implementations would have different success
rates. And there could be other factors as well such as how full the
fileystem is or how old it is.
--
greg
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