On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> That way you don't have to opt in to BufFile's >> double buffering and segmentation schemes just to get shared file >> clean-up, if for some reason you want direct file handles. > > Is that something that you really think is possible?
It's pretty far fetched, but maybe shared temporary relation files accessed via smgr.c/md.c? Or maybe future things that don't want to read/write through a buffer but instead want to mmap it. -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
