Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE -- Start of PGP signed section. > Hi - > > pgman wrote: > > : Most Unix filesystems will not allocate disk blocks until you write in > : them. [...] > > Yes, I understand that, but how is it a problem for postgresql? Uh, I thought we did that so we were not allocating file system blocks during WAL writes. Performance is bad when we do that. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl