Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-04 Thread tswan
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction I think Win2000 or XP would be a reasonable

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-04 Thread tswan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction I think Win2000

Re: [HACKERS] CVS HEAD compile warning

2004-02-27 Thread tswan
Tom Lane wrote: Red Hat's still shipping 2.5.4a according to a quick look... Well Red Hat's still ship Postgres 7.3.4 ... I'm not considering anymore RH to be up to date with various versions :-( Gaetano Not to jump immediately to RH's defense, but Fedora Core 2 (currently in beta)

[HACKERS] snapshot libpq compile fails under cygwin/win32 with -j 2

2004-02-27 Thread tswan
When compiling the 2004-02-27 snapshot with make -j 2, the compile of libpq fails with the following error. dlltool --export-all --output-def pq.def fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o fe-lobj.o fe-protocol2.o fe-protocol3.o pqexpbuffer.o pqsignal.o fe-secure.o dllist.o md5.o

Re: [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-02-27 Thread tswan
I do not intend to undertake raw disk tablespaces for 7.5. I'd be interested if anyone could provide some real world benchmarking of file system vs. raw disk. Postgres benefits a lot from kernel file system cache at the moment. Yes, and don't forget that pg also relys on the OS for