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Re: [PATCHES] SRA Win32 sync() code

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-16T22:46:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> Well, the bgwriter has basically the same chance the checkpointer has 
> ... mdblindwrt() in the end, because he doesn't have the relcache handy. 

We could easily get rid of mdblindwrt --- there is no very good reason
that we use the relcache for I/O.  There could and should be a
lower-level notion of "open relation" that bgwriter and checkpoint
could use.  See recent discussion with Neil, for example.  Vadim had
always wanted to do that, IIRC.

			regards, tom lane