| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: win32 performance - fsync question |
| Date: | 2005-02-20 18:31:11 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE47690F@algol.sollentuna.se |
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>> Portability, or rather the complete lack of it. Stuff that
>isn't in the
>> Single Unix Spec is a hard sell.
>
>O_DIRECT is reasonably common among modern Unixen (it is supported by
>Linux, FreeBSD, and probably a couple of the commercial variants like
>AIX or IRIX); it should also be reasonably easy to check for
>support at
>configure time. It's on my TODO list to take a gander at
>adding support
>for O_DIRECT for WAL, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Let me know when you do, and if you need some pointers on the win32
parts of it :-) I'll happily leave the main changes alone.
//Magnus
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