Re: macOS prefetching support

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: macOS prefetching support
Date: 2024-09-03 01:47:34
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJLET-1VjKpwEenx1Uycz02+iHVerbirtLg9av56X_g5w@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 1:35 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> On 17.08.24 00:01, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > I think that's fine. I don't really like the word "prefetch", could
> > mean many different things. What about "requires OS support for
> > issuing read-ahead advice", which uses a word that appears in both of
> > those interfaces?
>
> I like that term.

A couple of other places still use the old specific terminology. PSA.

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