Re: Anything to be gained from a 'Postgres Filesystem'?

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anything to be gained from a 'Postgres Filesystem'?
Date: 2004-11-05 04:35:08
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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 02:47, Chris Browne wrote:
> Another thing that would be valuable would be to have some way to say:
>
> "Read this data; don't bother throwing other data out of the cache
> to stuff this in."

This is similar, although not exactly the same thing:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/posix_fadvise.html

POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
Specifies that the application expects to access the specified
data once and then not reuse it thereafter.

-Neil

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