"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>>> Has anyone ever thought about adding kqueue (for *BSD) support to
>>> Postgres, instead of using select?
>> 
>> Why?  poll() is standard.  kqueue isn't, AFAIK.

> It's supposed be a whole heap faster - there is no polling involved...

Supposed by whom?  Faster than what?  And how would it not poll?

The way libpq uses this call, it's either probing for current status
(timeout=0) or it's willing to block, possibly indefinitely, until the
desired condition arises.  It does not sit there in a busy-wait loop.
I can't see any reason to think that an OS-specific API would give
any marked difference in performance.

			regards, tom lane

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