On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> That way you don't have to opt in to BufFile's
>> double buffering and segmentation schemes just to get shared file
>> clean-up, if for some reason you want direct file handles.
>
> Is that something that you really think is possible?
It's pretty far fetched, but maybe shared temporary relation files
accessed via smgr.c/md.c? Or maybe future things that don't want to
read/write through a buffer but instead want to mmap it.
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Thomas Munro
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