Re: Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license)
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Msg-id 392619DD.264615C8@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license)  (Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>)
Responses Re: Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> The only (completely) real solution for this is to use raw devices,
> uncached by the kernel, without any filesystem overhead...
> Are there any plans to support that?

No specific plans. afaik no "anti-plans" either, but the reason that
we don't do this yet is that it isn't clear to all of us that this
would be a real performance win. If someone wanted to do it as a
project that would result in a benchmark, that would help move things
along...
                     - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California


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