Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-09-02 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Greg Smith wrote: This patch does need a bit of general care in a couple of areas. The reviewing game plan I'm working through goes like this: Did this review effort go anywhere? Haven't made much progress--all my spare time for work like this la

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-08-31 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Greg Smith wrote: > This patch does need a bit of general care in a couple of areas. The > reviewing game plan I'm working through goes like this: Did this review effort go anywhere? -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Comm

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-07-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2008-07-12 00:52:42 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The later versions of mine had a GUC named effective_spindle_count which I think is nicely abstracted away from the implementation details. Yes, that does sound much better. (The patch I read

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-07-12 Thread Tom Lane
Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2008-07-12 00:52:42 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There was some discussion about this change and in fact if you >> look at CVS HEAD you'll find it already applied. > Not as far as I can see. The place where it matters is in ExecIndexAdvance

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-07-12 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-07-12 00:52:42 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There was some discussion about this change and in fact if you > look at CVS HEAD you'll find it already applied. Not as far as I can see. > Incrementing the most significant index keys would maximize the > distance we're jumpin around in

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-07-11 Thread Gregory Stark
"Abhijit Menon-Sen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Zoltán. > > I was reading through your posix_fadvise patch, Actually Zoltan's patch was based on an earlier patch from me. The sections you're highlighting here are from my original patch. > and I wanted to ask about this change in particular

Re: [HACKERS] posix advises ...

2008-07-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Hi Zoltán. I was reading through your posix_fadvise patch, and I wanted to ask about this change in particular: > --- a/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexscan.c > +++ b/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexscan.c > @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ ExecIndexEvalArrayKeys(ExprContext *econtext, > /* We want to kee