| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Sync vs. fsync during checkpoint |
| Date: | 2004-02-10 01:27:05 |
| Message-ID: | 21793.1076376425@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Doing this is not just what you call it. In a system with let's say 500
> active backends on a database with let's say 1000 things that are
> represented as a file, you'll need half a million virtual file descriptors.
[shrug] We've been dealing with virtual file descriptors for years.
I've seen no indication that they create any performance bottlenecks.
regards, tom lane
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