Sorry about that. -- Husam -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:25 AM To: Tomeh, Husam Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Pre-allocate space in advance On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:17, Tomeh, Husam wrote: > I don't have any numbers; and it may be an misconception as you pointed > out that's out there among Oracle DBAs that need to be re-visited again. > > Tom, could you also explain what you meant in a previous post I found > during my research on this issue, which I may have misunderstood it: "I > actually wish that Postgres would preallocate a lot of blocks in advance > (ie. 100 x 8KB). That would probably improve performance, as it would > not have to keep re-extending the file." > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2001-01/msg00153.php > > Thanks, Ummm, that was a different Tom, wasn't it? ********************************************************************** This message contains confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately thereafter. Thank you. FADLD Tag ********************************************************************** ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
