Also keep in mind that solaris is open source these days. If someone
wants it they could always go ahead and add the feature ...
greg
On 24 Oct 2008, at 03:18 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Hannu Krosing
>> <hannu@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 00:52 -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>>>> While we could build an
>>>> abstract prefetch interface and simply use fadvise for it now
>>>> (rather
>>>> than OS-specific code), I don't see an easy win in any case.
>>>
>>> When building an abstract interface, always use at least two
>>> implementations (I guess that would be fadvise on linux and AIO on
>>> solaris in this case). You are much more likely to get the interface
>>> right this way.
>>
>> I agree, I just wasn't sure as to whether Greg's patch supported
>> both methods.
>
> It does not, and probably will not for the near future; we can only
> hope Solaris suports posix_fadvise() at some point.
>
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