Re: Performance patch for Win32

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Mark Dilger <markdilger@yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-24T23:21:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:37:37PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:54:59PM -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
> > I was imagining that this would be a trap for linux developers
> > who saw nothing wrong with their code until it made it to the
> > build/test farm.  That's pretty far down the development
> > process.  Of course, it is also a trap in the other direction, for
> > Windows developers who use the pattern but do not include
> > anything equivalent for the non-Windows execution path.
> > 
> > On the whole, however, your argument in favor of tighter
> > patterns might be more convincing than my argument in favor
> > of catching bugs sooner.
> > 
> > I will start implementing your suggestion for patch v2.
> 
> Any progress on this?

I have added this to the TODO list:

  Reduce file statistics overhead on directory reads

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