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Re:PostgreSQL Indexes: First principles by tominous on Saturday February 27, 2016 @01:44AM (#11186321)
That's true but not particularly relevant to database performance. As I mentioned, random reads on an SSD do not suffer from a head seek penalty so it doesn't matter how the blocks are allocated. On the other hand with spinning disk there is a huge difference in throughput for large sequential vs small random reads.

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