Re: PostgreSQL win32 fragmentation issue

> Or more specifically do you have any idea what it means in terms of 
> performance?  And why do you say that you *have to* defrag under 
> windows, isn't this only a performance issue and not necessarily a huge 
> one at that?  Also, as a solution, I would think that CLUSTER might help.

Yes it is a performance issue. And all performance issues if they can
not be resolved within the database or application, eventually become an
outage. 

A CLUSTER may, but that puts us back to an outage. A CLUSTER is an
exclusive lock. Usually for long periods of time.

Joshua D. Drake


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