> > Yup, that would be the scenario where it helps (provided that you have > > a smart disk or a disk array and an intelligent OS aio implementation). > > It would be used to fetch the data pages pointed at from an index > > leaf, or the next level index pages. > > We measured the IO bandwidth difference on Windows with EMC as beeing > > nearly proportional to parallel outstanding requests up to at least > > Measured it using what? I was under the impression only one > proof-of-implementation existed, and that the scenarios and > configuration of the person who wrote it, did not show > significant improvement.
IIRC the configuration of that test was not suitable to show any benefit. Minimum requirements to show improvement are: - very few active sessions (typically less than number of disks) - a table that spans multiple disks (typically on a stripe set) (or one intelligent scsi disk) - only random disk access plans > You have PostgreSQL on Windows with EMC with async I/O > support to test with? No, sorry. Was a MaxDB issue. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq