Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 00:52 -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > >> While we could build an > >> abstract prefetch interface and simply use fadvise for it now (rather > >> than OS-specific code), I don't see an easy win in any case. > > > > When building an abstract interface, always use at least two > > implementations (I guess that would be fadvise on linux and AIO on > > solaris in this case). You are much more likely to get the interface > > right this way. > > I agree, I just wasn't sure as to whether Greg's patch supported both methods.
It does not, and probably will not for the near future; we can only hope Solaris suports posix_fadvise() at some point. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
