Should I forget about getting such a patch in?
I am up for implementing alternative solutions if the current
one is considered unacceptable. As I tried to demonstrate
in my last email, previous attempts also failed.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:14 PM Swen Kooij wrote:
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> I read two previous propos
I read two previous proposals for something similar.
First one is from 2013 [0]. It proposed a OS and filesystem specific
implementation. Which was then changed to a patch that adds a
config option to specify shell commands that postgres should use
for copying files and dirs. This was after commen
On 2019-09-02 22:16, Swen Kooij wrote:
> Is there anything that I am missing? My early experiments have been
> very promising but my experience with Postgres internals is limited. Any
> help or feedback would be much appreciated.
You might want to review several previous threads that were
contempl
Thank you both for the feedback. To give some background
on what I am trying to do. Mostly experimental work right now.
I've built an extension that takes advantage of the copy-on-write
properties of ZFS and BTRFS. A tool transforms a data directory
into a set of datasets/sub volumes. When a new d
On 2019-Sep-02, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-09-02 20:54, Swen Kooij wrote:
> > I've been working on an extension that tightly integrates
> > postgres with underlying filesystem . I need to customize
> > how postgres copies directories for new databases.
>
> Could you share some more details
I just realized I completely borked the patch file.
My apologies. Attached a (hopefully) correct patch file.
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Swen Kooij
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:54 PM Swen Kooij wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> I've been working on an extension that tightly integrates
> postgres with underlying filesystem . I nee
On 2019-09-02 20:54, Swen Kooij wrote:
> I've been working on an extension that tightly integrates
> postgres with underlying filesystem . I need to customize
> how postgres copies directories for new databases.
Could you share some more details, so we can assess whether that is a
sensible way to
Hello all,
I've been working on an extension that tightly integrates
postgres with underlying filesystem . I need to customize
how postgres copies directories for new databases.
I first looked at the ProcessUtility_hook. This would require
me to copy or rewrite most of the createdb() function. Th
