Re: Pre-allocate space in advance

Sorry about that.


--
 Husam

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe@g2switchworks.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:25 AM
To: Tomeh, Husam
Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:17, Tomeh, Husam wrote:
>  I don't have any numbers; and it may be an misconception as you
pointed
> out that's out there among Oracle DBAs that need to be re-visited
again.
>
> Tom, could you also explain what you meant in a previous post I found
> during my research on this issue, which I may have misunderstood it:
"I
> actually wish that Postgres would preallocate a lot of blocks in
advance
> (ie. 100 x 8KB). That would probably improve performance, as it would
> not have to keep re-extending the file."
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2001-01/msg00153.php
>
> Thanks,

Ummm, that was a different Tom, wasn't it?

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