Re: Closing some 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
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Msg-id 49DCE6BE.10802@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> The other thing I was going to ask you about is using posix_fadvise as 
> an alternative to O_DIRECT for the xlog.  O_DIRECT is, AFAIK, 
> linux-only, whereas there are "direct write" fadvise flags which work on 
> multiple OSes.

What flags are those? I don't see any posix_fadvise flags that would do 
anything like O_DIRECT.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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