Re: PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance problems on Windows

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Gunnar Dyrset <jan(dot)g(dot)dyrset(at)cybernetica(dot)no>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL disk fragmentation causes performance problems on Windows
Date: 2015-05-21 20:39:13
Message-ID: 20150521203913.GB2028@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-05-21 11:54:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> This has been talked about as a feature, but would require major work on
> PostgreSQL to make it possible. You'd be looking at several months of
> effort by a really good hacker, and then a whole bunch of performance
> testing. If you have the budget for this, then please let's talk about
> it because right now nobody is working on it.

I think this is overestimating the required effort quite a bit. While
not trivial, it's also not that complex to make this work.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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