Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.
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Msg-id 200810282140.m9SLeqn04648@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm happy with the idea of a readahead process. I thought we were
> > implementing a BackgroundReader process for other uses. Is that dead
> > now?
> 
> You and Bruce seem to keep resurrecting that idea. I've never liked it -- I
> always hated that in Oracle and thought it was a terrible kludge.

I didn't think I was promoting the separate reader process after you had
the posix_fadvise() idea.

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