"Curtis Faith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not really worried about doing page-in reads because the disks internal > buffers should contain most of the blocks surrounding the end of the log > file. If the successive partial writes exceed a block (which they will in > heavy use) then most of the time this won't be a problem anyway since the > disk will gang the full blocks before writing.
You seem to be willing to make quite a large number of assumptions about what the disk hardware will do or not do. I trust you're going to test your results on a wide range of hardware before claiming they have any general validity ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])