On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:38:04PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>which have a clear and measurable effect on performance and are fixable
>without bloating the PG code. Some of these issues (COPY path, context
>switching
Does that include increasing the size of read/write blocks? I've noticed
that with a large enough table it takes a while to do a sequential scan,
even if it's cached; I wonder if the fact that it takes a million
read(2) calls to get through an 8G table is part of that.
Mike Stone