On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scott Carey <sc...@richrelevance.com> wrote:
> Its fairly easy to break.  Just do a parallel import with say, 16 concurrent 
> tables being written to at once.  Result?  Fragmented tables.
>

Fwiw I did do some investigation about this at one point and could not
demonstrate any significant fragmentation. But that was on Linux --
different filesystem implementations would have different success
rates. And there could be other factors as well such as how full the
fileystem is or how old it is.

-- 
greg

-- 
Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance

Reply via email to