Re: ice-broker scan thread

["Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>]

FYI, I've personally used Oracle 9.2.0.4's async IO on Linux and have seen several installations which make use of it also.

 

On 11/28/05, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au > writes:
> > I haven't had time to prototype whether we can easily implement async IO
>
> Just as with any suggestion to depend on threads, you are going to have
> to show results that border on astounding to have any chance of getting
> this in.  Otherwise the portability issues are just going to make it not
> worth the trouble.

The architecture I am looking at would not rely on threads.

I didn't want to jump on list and waive my hands until I had something to
show, but since Qingqing is looking at the issue I thought I better raise
it.

Gavin

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