| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Jignesh K(dot) Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Chris Mair <list(at)1006(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: bad performance on Solaris 10 |
| Date: | 2006-04-13 04:52:30 |
| Message-ID: | 9622.1144903950@sss.pgh.pa.us |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-performance |
"Jignesh K. Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> Many times PostgreSQL has many things based on assumption that it will
> run on Linux and it is left to Solaris to emulate that behavior.
Au contraire --- PG tries its best to be OS-agnostic. I've personally
resisted people trying to optimize it by putting in Linux-specific
behavior. The above sounds to me like making excuses for a poor OS.
(And yes, I will equally much resist any requests to put in Solaris-
specific behavior...)
regards, tom lane
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Bruce Momjian | 2006-04-13 08:39:35 | Re: bad performance on Solaris 10 |
| Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2006-04-13 04:46:51 | Re: pg 7.4.x - pg_restore impossibly slow |