Re: VACUUM and read-mostly tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: VACUUM and read-mostly tables
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Msg-id 20050405193203.GV93835@decibel.org
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In response to Re: VACUUM and read-mostly tables  (Ian Westmacott <ianw@intellivid.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:56:05PM -0400, Ian Westmacott wrote:
> > And if UFS is available for linux you should might try it.
>
> Would UFS help the fragmentation issue?  We have seen ext3
> allocating blocks in 2-4 pages, while XFS manages 8-16
> pages.

Hrm... I'm not sure what the allocation stratedgy is. I guess this is a
case where it would be useful to tell postgresql to allocate space for a
table in large chunks.
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