Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/08/oracle-optimize.html
> > 
> > Not a whole lot of technical content there, but pretty interesting
> > nonetheless.  I *think* that the issues we're seeing are largely in the
> > NFS client-side kernel code, so bypassing that stack as Oracle is doing
> > might eliminate the problem.  Of course, there's a sizable amount of
> > code to be written to do that ...
> 
> Yeah.  Next step we will be writing our own malloc.

I assume there should be a ;-) in there because we already have our own
malloc (palloc).

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