On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2016-04-21 14:15:53 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Munro >> <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> > On the WaitEventSet thread I posted a small patch to add kqueue >> > support[1]. Since then I peeked at how some other software[2] >> > interacts with kqueue and discovered that there are platforms >> > including NetBSD where kevent.udata is an intptr_t instead of a void >> > *. Here's a version which should compile there. Would any NetBSD >> > user be interested in testing this? (An alternative would be to make >> > configure to test for this with some kind of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE >> > incantation but the steamroller cast is simpler.) >> >> Did you code this up blind or do you have a NetBSD machine yourself? > > RMT, what do you think, should we try to get this into 9.6? It's > feasible that the performance problem 98a64d0bd713c addressed is also > present on free/netbsd.
My personal opinion is that it would be a reasonable thing to do if somebody can demonstrate that it actually solves a real problem. Absent that, I don't think we should rush it in. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
