Re: Closing some 8.4 open items

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
Date: 2009-04-08 18:16:36
Message-ID: 16038.1239214596@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> cygwin supports POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL (and POSIX_FADV_NORMAL to revert
>> it), but not any of the other flags. It maps it to
>> NtSetInformationFile() like this:

> We set this in our open() wrapper in the code today.

Really? Where? I didn't find any of the mentioned symbols in a quick
grep.

I'm not sure how Windows interprets FILE_SEQUENTIAL_ONLY, but if that
really means that it assumes *only* sequential accesses will happen,
I'm not sure that we'd want to turn it on.

regards, tom lane

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