random write in xlog?

From: flyusa2010 fly <flyusa2010(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: random write in xlog?
Date: 2010-12-07 22:06:22
Message-ID: AANLkTinFTPzuM3+CD0oRoAxsAGNK-S6dxnncCr7+f3_S@mail.gmail.com
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Hi, folks,

I trace the running postgres, and I found that there are some randoms writes
in xlog files!
To my impression, log file writing is always sequential, how come random
writes happen?

Thanks in advance!

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