Re: Another documentation issue

Tom,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> If we do anything about this, I'd just say "systems that have
> >> posix_fadvise()". If we write something more specific it's likely to
> >> become obsolete, and it doesn't seem to me that it's hard for someone
> >> to research "does my box have posix_fadvise()?
>
> > Imagine a person that wants to write a program which will cover creating
> > the table space.
> > Such person needs to cover the appropriate fields with possible values.
> > Is there a #define such person should check to cover the appropriate
> values?
>
> HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE. Seems to me it'd be way easier to find that
> from documentation that mentions posix_fadvise than from documentation
> that says "it works on systems X, Y, Z".

Agreed.
Hopefully someone can put this in…

Thx.

>
> regards, tom lane
>