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Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems?

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <tmunro@freebsd.org>
Date: 2025-01-03T14:47:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> We tried to make our code as robust as it could be in the face of kernel
> code that behaved in a manner that was fairly ridiculous relative to our
> needs. This case doesn't seem that different to me.
>

+1. Seems a shame that freebsd chooses such "optimizations", but making our
code do various workarounds and jump through hoops to support various OS
quirks (hello Win32 fans!) seems a burden we agreed to take on a long time
ago.

Cheers,
Greg