Re: Pre-allocate space in advance - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> There was recently discussion about changing how allocation happens in
> the future. I'm pretty sure it was started by Bruce Momjian on -hackers,
> but I can't find it in the archives now...

I don't think is was me.  If it was, it would be on the TODO list.

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> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:14:13PM -0800, Tomeh, Husam wrote:
> > I apologize for the wrong subject in a previous post. Here it is again:
> >
> >
> >   My understanding that the current release of Postgres does not allow
> > the DBA to pre-allocated space for the data files or tablespace in
> > advance (as Oracle or SQL Server does). Am I correct on that ? If that's
> > still the case, is this item on the TODO list or the white board?
> > Pre-allocating space will prevent extending the datafile during loading
> > massive data (batch processing) and would improve the overall batch
> > write performance.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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> >  Husam
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