Re: Closing some 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
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Msg-id 16038.1239214596@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> cygwin supports POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL (and POSIX_FADV_NORMAL to revert
>> it), but not any of the other flags. It maps it to
>> NtSetInformationFile() like this:

> We set this in our open() wrapper in the code today.

Really?  Where?  I didn't find any of the mentioned symbols in a quick
grep.

I'm not sure how Windows interprets FILE_SEQUENTIAL_ONLY, but if that
really means that it assumes *only* sequential accesses will happen,
I'm not sure that we'd want to turn it on.
        regards, tom lane


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