>> Most of you already know I am new to this list and newer to any OSS >> development. However, while browsing the source code (of 9.0.1) I find >> that there is only one way to store relations on disk - the magnetic >> disk.
>The fact that it's called md.c is a hangover from the '80s. These days, >the logic that the Berkeley guys envisioned being at that code level >is generally in kernel device drivers. md.c can drive anything that >behaves as a block device + filesystem, which is pretty much everything >of interest. I believe that PostgreSQL was been developed and optimized for sequential access. To get full advantage of SSDs its necessary to rewrite almost the whole project - there are so much code written with the sequential mechanism in mind. -- Daniel Loureiro -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
