| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Koichi Suzuki <koichi(dot)szk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4. |
| Date: | 2008-10-28 21:40:52 |
| Message-ID: | 200810282140.m9SLeqn04648@momjian.us |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>
> > I'm happy with the idea of a readahead process. I thought we were
> > implementing a BackgroundReader process for other uses. Is that dead
> > now?
>
> You and Bruce seem to keep resurrecting that idea. I've never liked it -- I
> always hated that in Oracle and thought it was a terrible kludge.
I didn't think I was promoting the separate reader process after you had
the posix_fadvise() idea.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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