Re: ice-broker scan thread

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ice-broker scan thread
Date: 2005-11-29 04:51:30
Message-ID: 36e682920511282051q432bb176r24f4a025b2f16d40@mail.gmail.com
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FYI, I've personally used Oracle 9.2.0.4's async IO on Linux and have seen
several installations which make use of it also.

On 11/28/05, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > > I haven't had time to prototype whether we can easily implement async
> IO
> >
> > Just as with any suggestion to depend on threads, you are going to have
> > to show results that border on astounding to have any chance of getting
> > this in. Otherwise the portability issues are just going to make it not
> > worth the trouble.
>
> The architecture I am looking at would not rely on threads.
>
> I didn't want to jump on list and waive my hands until I had something to
> show, but since Qingqing is looking at the issue I thought I better raise
> it.
>
> Gavin
>
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