read block size - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Stone
Subject read block size
Date
Msg-id 20050628152750.GV9591@mathom.us
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Responses Re: read block size
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Is it possible to tweak the size of a block that postgres tries to read
when doing a sequential scan? It looks like it reads in fairly small
blocks, and I'd expect a fairly significant boost in i/o performance
when doing a large (multi-gig) sequential scan if larger blocks were
used.

Mike Stone

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