Re: Postgres Process in Kernel Mode?

From: Lexington Luthor <Lexington(dot)Luthor(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres Process in Kernel Mode?
Date: 2006-08-01 08:18:11
Message-ID: ean2o7$q05$1@sea.gmane.org
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moises wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m new in postgres SQL and I have some questions about the space where
> postgres process run.
>
> 1-Can any body say me what libs use postgres for make system calls, for
> example LIBC?
>
> 2-Can any body talk me if some postgres process can run in Linux kernel
> space?
>
> 3- Some body knows if exist some projects that ports postgres process on
> Linux kernel space.
>
>
> I was read some source code of postgres, like,
>
> Postgres.C and others…
>
> I was found C instructions like Printf, that’s prohibitive for Linux
> kernel applications, for example in kernel mode we use printk.
>
> I suppose that postgres are ported in a user space only. I’m Ok?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Moises

You can do it (e.g. http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/) but why
would you want to? PG runs fine in userspace and I can see no particular
benefit to being in the kernel.

What exactly are you trying to do with it? Are you trying to interface
PG with some kernel facility?

LL

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