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Responses Re: random write in xlog?  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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Hi, folks,

I trace the running postgres, and I found that there are some randoms writes in xlog files!
To my impression, log file writing is always sequential, how come random writes happen? 

Thanks in advance!

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