Re: Direct I/O

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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

Cc: Mikael Kjellström <mikael.kjellstrom@mksoft.nu>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-04-16T17:59:03Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers


> On Apr 16, 2023, at 12:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> On 2023-04-16 Su 10:18, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Actually, as long as it's still OpenBSD I think you can keep using
>>> the same animal name ... Andrew, what's the policy on that?
> 
>> update_personality.pl lets you update the OS version / compiler version 
>> / owner-name / owner-email
> 
> Oh wait ... this involves a switch from gcc in OpenBSD 5.9 to clang
> in OpenBSD 7.3, doesn't it?  That isn't something update_personality
> will handle; you need a new animal if the compiler product is changing.
> 
>  

Correct.

Cheers

Andrew

Commits

Rename hook functions for debug_io_direct to match variable name.
- 155c81463c26 16.0 landed
- 4f3514f201cf 17.0 landed
Rename io_direct to debug_io_direct.
- 319bae9a8da6 16.0 landed
Skip the 004_io_direct.pl test if a pre-flight check fails.
- 6ca8df2d6147 16.0 landed
Use higher wal_level for 004_io_direct.pl.
- 980e8879f54a 16.0 landed
Skip \password TAP test on old IPC::Run versions
- 2e57ffe12f6b 16.0 cited
Add io_direct setting (developer-only).
- d4e71df6d757 16.0 landed
Introduce PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE and align all I/O buffers.
- faeedbcefd40 16.0 landed
Add palloc_aligned() to allow aligned memory allocations
- 439f61757f05 16.0 cited
initdb: When running CREATE DATABASE, use STRATEGY = WAL_COPY.
- ad43a413c4f7 15.0 cited