Hi Hackers,
I've familiarized myself a little with the architecture of postgresql,
largely because it's interesting. There's one thing I can't quite
figure out though, and it seems that there's no better group of people
in the world to ask about it.
At the lower levels in PG, reading from the
Dan Eloff wrote:
At the lower levels in PG, reading from the disk into cache, and
writing from the cache to the disk is always done in pages.
Why does PG work this way? Is it any slower to write whole pages
rather than just the region of the page that changed? Conversely, is
it faster? From
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Dan Eloff dan.el...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Hackers,
I've familiarized myself a little with the architecture of postgresql,
largely because it's interesting. There's one thing I can't quite
figure out though, and it seems that there's no better group of people
in
