Re: posix_fadvise v22

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "ITAGAKI Takahiro" <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Postgres <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: posix_fadvise v22
Date: 2009-01-01 20:55:15
Message-ID: 10658.1230843315@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Am I correct in thinking that the only thing we're really checking for
> here is whether a trivial posix_fadvise() call returns success? If
> so, is this test really worth doing?

Runtime tests performed during configure are generally a bad idea to
start with --- it's impossible to do any such thing in a
cross-compilation scenario, for example.

regards, tom lane

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