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> 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.
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