From: Adriaan van Os <postgres@microbizz.nl>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: TRUNCATE TABLE
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:47:06 +0200
Message-ID: <46972DFA.9000900@microbizz.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ps2ypox3.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com>
References: <46953949.3030201@microbizz.nl>
<87ps2ypox3.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com>
Gregory Stark wrote:
> What filesystem is this?
Ext3 on Fedora Linux.
> Some filesystems are notoriously slow at deleting
> large files. The mythtv folk who face this problem regularly recommend either
> JFS or XFS for this purpose.
That's a remarkable advice, because XFS is known to be slow at creating and deleting files, see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS; and <http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435;.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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