On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 02:53 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > If you compare how Oracle handles their writes and checkpoints to the > Postgres code, it's obvious they have a different architecture that > enables them to support sync writing usefully. I'd recommend the > Database > Writer Process section of > http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/awcourse/oracle/server.920/a96524/c09procs.htm > as an introduction for those not familiar with that; it's interesting > reading for anyone tinking with background writer code.
Oracle does have a different checkpointing technique and we know it is patented, so we need to go carefully there, especially when directly referencing documentation. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
