Re: Anything to be gained from a 'Postgres Filesystem'? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:47:31AM -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> Another thing that would be valuable would be to have some way to say:
>
>   "Read this data; don't bother throwing other data out of the cache
>    to stuff this in."
>
> Something like a "read_uncached()" call...

You mean, like, open(filename, O_DIRECT)? :-)

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