Mark kirkwood wrote:
> Damn... too quick with the "send" button.
>
> I forgot to mention :
>
> 1) the test involved usng copy to load the rows !
Oh, COPY. Remember fsync of WAL only happens at the end of a
transaction, and with COPY, that is only once the table is completely
loaded. No wonder you saw strange results. Also, someone reported ext3
as 50% slower than ext2, so again, your numbers are a surprise.
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