>>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a large fraction of the writes you're measuring are coming from > the file create/unlink operations. It would certainly be important to > identify where the bulk of the cost *really* is before we start > expending effort on a solution. Any ideas on a good way to gather that information? Given the temp_buffers space, would it make sense to defer the creation of the actual file until there is actually a need to spill data to the disk? -Kevin
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