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> As far as I can tell, the PG storage manager API is at the wrong level
> of abstraction for pretty much everything. These days, everything we do
> is atop the Unix filesystem API, and anything that smgr might have been
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Is there a complete list of filesystem API calls somewhere that I can
> It would only be possible to have the actual PostgreSQL backends
> running on a single node anyway, because they use shared memory to
This is not problem: Performance is a secondary consideration (at least
as far as the problem I was referring to).
The primary usefulness is to have the data be
Hadoop backend for PostGreSQL
A problem that my client has, and one that I come across often,
is that a database seems to always be associated with a particular
physical machine, a physical machine that has to be upgraded,
replaced, or otherwise maintained.
Even if the database is replicated,
