Re: Re: File system performance and pg_xlog (More info)

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> >From a portability standpoint, I think if we go anywhere, it would be to
> write directly into device files representing sections of a disk.

That makes sense to me.  On "traditional" Unices, we could use the raw 
character device for a partition (eg /dev/rdsk/* on Solaris), and on
Linux we'd use /dev/raw*, which is a mapping to a specific partition
established before PG startup. 

I guess there would need to be a system table that keeps track of 
(dev, offset, size) tuples for each WAL file.

-Doug
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