On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 19:05, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> What are the odds of going through and revamping some of the tunables
> in postgresql.conf for the 7.4 release? I was just working with
> someone on IRC and on their 7800 RPM IDE drives, their
> random_page_cost was ideally suited to be 0.32: a far cry from 4.
I find it very very hard to believe a random read was cheaper than a
sequential read. Something is shifty in your testing.
