Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

From: "William K(dot) Volkman" <wkv(at)hiscorp(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC
Date: 2001-03-17 01:01:39
Message-ID: 3AB2B773.9119E73@hiscorp.net
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>>
> But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
> thread-support library"? My understanding of shared libraries (altho it
> may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole library, you
> pulled in the bits that you needed, pretty much as you needed them ...

Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread
safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking). Use one thread feature, get
the whole set...which may not be that bad.
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