[HACKERS] problem using semaphores

2007-05-08 Thread Raja Agrawal
). Is the following way of using semaphores not correct in the postgres environment? Are we missing something or is there any hack around it? -regards Raja Agrawal Postgraduate Student Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bo

Re: [HACKERS] Asynchronous I/O Support

2006-10-17 Thread Raja Agrawal
Have a look at this: [2]http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-async/ This gives a good description of AIO. I'm doing some testing. Will notify, if I get any positive results. Please let me know, if you get any ideas after reading [2]. Regards, Raja On 10/17/06, Florian Weimer

[HACKERS] Asynchronous I/O Support

2006-10-15 Thread Raja Agrawal
lback sceme or a sync IO on top of AIO, which of these will be best? Also, as Graefe's paper suggests, a producer-consumer (thread-based) is the best way to do this. But how to implement threading? (in case its possible to?) Sincere regards, Raja Agrawal ---(end of