Re: Can postgres create a file with physically continuous blocks.

On Dec 19, 2010, at 1:10 AM, flyusa2010 fly wrote:
> Does postgres make an effort to create a file with physically continuous blocks?

AFAIK all files are expanded as needed. I don't think there's any flags you can pass to the filesystem to tell it "this
filewill eventually be 1GB in size". So, we're basically at the mercy of the FS to try and keep things contiguous. 

BTW, it's worse with btree indexes; they end up non-sequential inside the file anyway, so even if the file is
contiguousindex access may not be. 
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