Re: ice-broker scan thread

Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> 
>>I haven't had time to prototype whether we can easily implement async IO
> 
> 
> Just as with any suggestion to depend on threads, you are going to have
> to show results that border on astounding to have any chance of getting
> this in.  Otherwise the portability issues are just going to make it not
> worth the trouble.

Do these ideas require threads in principle? ISTM that there could be 
(additional) process(es) waiting to perform pre-fetching or async io, 
and we could use the usual IPC machinary to talk between them...

cheers

Mark