Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:
> I think the real reason Oracle and others practically re-wrote
> their own VM-system and filesystems is that at the time it was
> important for them to run under Windows98; where it was rather
> easy to write better filesystems than your customer's OS was
> bundled with.

Windows98?  No, those decisions predate any thought of running Oracle
on Windows, probably by decades.  But I think the thought process was
about as above whenever they did make it; they were running on some
pretty stupid OSes way back when.
        regards, tom lane