On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:58:01AM +0100, Matt Clark wrote: > I suppose I'm just idly wondering really. Clearly it's against PG > philosophy to build an FS or direct IO management into PG, but now it's so > relatively easy to plug filesystems into the main open-source Oses, It > struck me that there might be some useful changes to, say, XFS or ext3, that > could be made that would help PG out.
This really sounds like a poor replacement for just making PostgreSQL use raw devices to me. (I have no idea why that isn't done already, but presumably it isn't all that easy to get right. :-) ) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]