O_DIRECT use - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject O_DIRECT use
Date
Msg-id 200201042108.g04L8II24280@candle.pha.pa.us
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Responses Re: O_DIRECT use  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I have added this item to TODO:
* Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching

Web shows it minimized file system caching, perhaps for sequential
scans:
http://archives2.us.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-09/msg00713.php

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