Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 22:39:13 +0200
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Jan Gunnar Dyrset <jan.g.dyrset@cybernetica.no>,
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance
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On 2015-05-21 11:54:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> This has been talked about as a feature, but would require major work on
> PostgreSQL to make it possible.  You'd be looking at several months of
> effort by a really good hacker, and then a whole bunch of performance
> testing.  If you have the budget for this, then please let's talk about
> it because right now nobody is working on it.

I think this is overestimating the required effort quite a bit. While
not trivial, it's also not that complex to make this work.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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