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