Michael Stone wrote: > Note that the WAL will > wander around the disk as files are created and deleted, whereas tables > are basically updated in place.
Huh? I was rather under the impression that the WAL files (in pg_xlog, right?) were reused once they'd been created, so their locations on the disk should remain the same, as should their data blocks (roughly, depending on the implementation of the filesystem, of course). -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster