Tom Lane escribió: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > Tom Lane escribió: > >> That's not going to do anything towards reducing the actual I/O volume. > >> Although I suppose it might be useful if it just cuts the number of > >> seeks. > > > Oh, they had no problems with I/O volume. It was relation extension > > lock that was heavily contended for them. > > Really? I guess that serialized all the I/O ... I'll bet if we got rid > of that locking somehow, they *would* have a problem with I/O volume.
Well, that would solve the problem as far as I'm concerned and they'd have to start talking to their storage provider ;-) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
