Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From William K. Volkman
Subject Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC
Date
Msg-id 3AB2B773.9119E73@hiscorp.net
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC  (Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>> 
> But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
> thread-support library"?  My understanding of shared libraries (altho it
> may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole library, you
> pulled in the bits that you needed, pretty much as you needed them ...

Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread
safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking).  Use one thread feature, get
the whole set...which may not be that bad.
-- 
William K. Volkman.
CIO - H.I.S. Financial Services Corporation.
102 S. Tejon, Ste. 920, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Phone: 719-633-6942  Fax: 719-633-7006  Cell: 719-330-8423


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: jreniz
Date:
Subject: Trigger problem
Next
From: Nat Howard
Date:
Subject: Re: Beta6 for Tomorrow