Trying to determine the correct number of XFS allocation groups for postgresql server on Linux

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postgresql-8.4

I am running a postgres 8.4.5 server on the linux 2.6.33.7 kernel on an 8 disk raid array with an LSI controller.

Most of the tables are around 1GB or less.

I know that XFS uses allocation groups (AG) to achieve I/O parallelism.

My first question is, does this mean that if two tables are in the same AG, all I/O requests are queued to both of them if either is being read from/written to?

If so, I assume I would want to spread my tables across as my allocation groups as possible, correct? Wouldn't this ensure that multiple users querying different tables would get the best performance?

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