Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-04T21:17:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>The main problem with this is knowing which files need to be fsync'd.
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>Wasn't this a problem that the win32 port had to solve by keeping a list 
>of all files that need fsyncing since Windows doesn't do sync() in the 
>classical sense?  If so, then could we use that code to keep track of the 
>files that need fsyncing?
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according to the win32 page at 
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html this is 
still to be done. I seem to recall Bruce saying that SRA had found the 
solution to this, something along these lines, but I am not sure the 
code is there yet (don't have access to that branch on this machine)

cheers

andrew