Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:55 +0900, Koichi Suzuki wrote:

> I'd like to hear some more about these.   I'm more than happy to write
> all the code inside PG core to avoid overhead to create another
> process.

Having an external program can help earlier releases also, so I think
this is the right approach for now.

In next PG release we should bring this into core, along with streaming.

Interface would be better if it accepted  pg_readahead filename
or pg_readahead filename start-lsn

We don't always need a starting lsn.

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