Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:34 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm happy with the idea of a readahead process. I thought we were
> > implementing a BackgroundReader process for other uses. Is that dead
> > now?
> 
> You and Bruce seem to keep resurrecting that idea. 

Actually just asking for status, not trying to change design.

> I've never liked it -- I
> always hated that in Oracle and thought it was a terrible kludge.

But now... If you have a better way, great, but that doesn't make
perfectly workable and fairly simple userspace solutions into kludges.
That's just an emotive description of your preference.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support