posix_fadvsise in base backups

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-24T15:08:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Attached patch adds a simple call to posix_fadvise with
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED on all the files being read when doing a base
backup, to help the kernel not to trash the filesystem cache.

Seems like a simple enough fix - in fact, I don't remember why I took
it out of the original patch :O

Any reason not to put this in? Is it even safe enough to put into 9.1
(probably not, but maybe?)

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