Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>The main problem with this is knowing which files need to be fsync'd.
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>Wasn't this a problem that the win32 port had to solve by keeping a list
>of all files that need fsyncing since Windows doesn't do sync() in the
>classical sense? If so, then could we use that code to keep track of the
>files that need fsyncing?
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according to the win32 page at
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html this is
still to be done. I seem to recall Bruce saying that SRA had found the
solution to this, something along these lines, but I am not sure the
code is there yet (don't have access to that branch on this machine)

cheers

andrew