Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:50:46 -0400
> "Jon Franz" <coventry(at)one(dot)net> wrote:
> > One note: SGI developers discovered they could get amazing performance using
> > as hybrid threaded and forked-process model with apache - we might want to
> > look into this. They even have a library for network-communication
> > utilizing thier 'state threads' model.
>
> I think ST is designed for network I/O-bound apps -- last I checked,
> disk I/O will still block an entire ST process. While you can get around
> that by using another process to do disk I/O, it sounds like ST won't be
> that useful.
>
> However, Chris KL. (I believe) raised the idea of using POSIX AIO for
> PostgreSQL. Without having looked into it extensively, this technique
> sounds promising. Perhaps someone who has looked into this further
> (e.g. someone from Redhat) can comment?

I know Red Hat is interested in AIO. Only a few OS's support it so it
was hard to get exited about it at the time, but with threading, a
AIO-specific module could be attempted.

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