Horrible PostgreSQL performance with NFS

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:42:02AM -0800, Arne Woerner wrote:
> Did you do those "dd" tests with small block sizes (like 1byte:
> bs=1), like somebody on one of those lists suggests, too? Then we
> could see, if there is a high latency that ruins everything...

FYI, PostgreSQL does 8kB I/O by default. This can only be changed by
modifying a header file.
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