Re: PostgreSQL win32 fragmentation issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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?

> 
> Are you using NTFS or FAT?  You didn't answer that question.

NTFS of course :) (sorry).

Joshua D. Drake


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