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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-11-09 03:57:42 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-11-09 03:57:42 +0000
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Update mmap details:
< portability issues. Anonymous mmap is required to prevent I/O < overhead. > portability issues. Anonymous mmap (or mmap to /dev/zero) is required > to prevent I/O overhead. > > * Consider mmap()'ing files into a backend? > > Doing I/O to large tables would consume a lot of address space or > require frequent mapping/unmapping. Extending the file also causes > mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages, > leading to thousands of mappings. Another problem is that there is no > way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes > could hit disk before WAL is written.
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