On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:02 PM, didier <did447@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was surely already discussed but why isn't postresql writing
> sequentially its cache in a temporary file? With storage random speed at
> least five to ten time slower it could help a lot.
> Thanks
Sure, that's what the WAL does. But you still have to checkpoint eventually.
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