Re: small smgrcreate cleanup patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-08-20T14:01:55Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 20/08/10 16:30, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> I really like the idea of trying to use network-based storage in some
>> way.  Gigabit Ethernet is a big I/O channel.
>
> NFS?

I don't particularly trust NFS to be either reliable or performant for
database use.  Do you?  And what if you want additional functionality,
like sharding or mirroring?  ISTM that something built around a custom
protocol that mimics exactly what we need from the smgr layer would be
a lot easier to set up and a lot easier to be confident in.

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Robert Haas
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