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

Neil Conway wrote:
> Also, I would imagine Win32 provides some means to inform the kernel
> about your expected I/O pattern, but I haven't checked. Does anyone know
> of any other relevant APIs?

See CreateFile, Parameter dwFlagsAndAttributes

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp

There is FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING, FILE_FLAG_OPEN_NO_RECALL,
FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS and even FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS

Jan