Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems?

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)freebsd(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems?
Date: 2025-01-03 14:47:09
Message-ID: CAKAnmmKqz+XwFGkRMa7ufQe38-VDcZJvryhsOgpWZJEhyP7-=g@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> We tried to make our code as robust as it could be in the face of kernel
> code that behaved in a manner that was fairly ridiculous relative to our
> needs. This case doesn't seem that different to me.
>

+1. Seems a shame that freebsd chooses such "optimizations", but making our
code do various workarounds and jump through hoops to support various OS
quirks (hello Win32 fans!) seems a burden we agreed to take on a long time
ago.

Cheers,
Greg

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