* Chris Ruprecht: > Other database that I have worked with before and that I'm still > working with, allow you to pre-allocate disk space so you get huge > chunks of contiguous space at one, which has major impacts on > database performance. PostgreSQL's write patterns do not trigger significant fragmentation with most file systems, even when other database systems (Oracle Berkeley DB comes to my mind) would create heavily fragmented files. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
