Re: Disk Access Question

Sorry, for got to mention pg 7.3.4.

On 9/20/05, Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I have a question on disk access.
>
> How often is PostgreSQL accessing/touching the files that are on the hard
> drive?
>
> What I'm trying to ask is, is PostgreSQL constantly updating access
> timestamps or something like that on the database files even if they are not
> being queried? This questions comes from an Oracle background where Oracle
> was updating the individual files every 3 seconds if I am remembering
> correctly.
>
> I am trying to figure out besides the queries, what sort of accessing is
> PostgreSQL doing to my drives so we can try and resolve some i/o issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>