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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-17T00:39:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> > So why all the enthusiasm for multi-tables-per-file?

It allows you to use raw partitions which stop the OS double buffering
and wasting half of memory, as well as removing the overhead of indirect
blocks in the file system.