On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> "A new DIRECTIO kernel option enables support for read operations that
> bypass the buffer cache and put data directly into a userland buffer....
>
> Will PostgreSQL pick this up automatically, or do we need to add extra
> checks?
You don't want it to. It's more efficent just to use mmap, because then
all the paging and caching issues are taken care of for you.
cjs
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