Re: TRUNCATE TABLE

Tom Lane wrote:

> Somehow, autovac is doing something that makes the filesystem go nuts
> every so often, and take an astonishingly long time to create an empty
> file.  But autovac itself doesn't create or delete any files, so what's
> up here?
>
> Also, I was able to reproduce the variability in timing on HPUX and
> Darwin as well as Linux, so we can't put all the blame on ext3.
> (I didn't drill down to the strace level on the other two machines,
> though, so it's possible that there is a different mechanism at work
> there.)

Any news since this message ? Should I file a bug report ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os