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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Another documentation issue
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:40:54 -0400
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Igor Korot <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If we do anything about this, I'd just say "systems that have
>> posix_fadvise()".  If we write something more specific it's likely to
>> become obsolete, and it doesn't seem to me that it's hard for someone
>> to research "does my box have posix_fadvise()?

> Imagine a person that wants to write a program which will cover creating
> the table space.
> Such person needs to cover the appropriate fields with possible values.
> Is there a #define such person should check to cover the appropriate values?

HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE.  Seems to me it'd be way easier to find that
from documentation that mentions posix_fadvise than from documentation
that says "it works on systems X, Y, Z".

			regards, tom lane

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