Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 schrieb Tom Lane: >> (Thinks for a bit...) Actually I guess there's one extra assumption in >> there, which is that tar must issue its reads in multiples of our page >> size. But that doesn't seem like much of a stretch. > There is something about that here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_149.html#SEC149 AFAICT that's talking about the I/O chunk size *on the archive file*. It doesn't say anything specific about the chunk size on the file side. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate