| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Free WAL caches on switching segments |
| Date: | 2006-02-13 18:09:34 |
| Message-ID: | 2884.1139854174@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Depending on OS features we have never depended on before is a *huge*
>> ongoing maintenance cost, and I have not seen an argument that I think
>> justifies this one.
> I disagree. It is a localized change and seems like a win, and it uses
> a standard POSIX feature, rather than an OS-specific one.
It's still gonna need a configure test and so on. "POSIX" does not mean
"exists everywhere". Moreover, the submitter has not even proven that
the code works (or even builds, much less does anything useful) on the
platforms it's supposedly for.
regards, tom lane
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