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From: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[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 13:32:50 -0500
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Hi, Tom,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes:
> >> On 23 Apr 2025, at 09:16, Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 00:21 -0500, Igor Korot wrote:
> >>> No explanation of what is "supported system" is given...
>
> >> According to the source, it is "systems that have posix_fadvise()".  We
> could document that,
> >> but I don't know if it would help many people.  I am not sure how easy
> and feasible it is
> >> to research which versions of which operating systems qualify.
>
> >> From memory it's supported on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux with Windows,
> macOS and
> > OpenBSD not supporting it.  Assuming I'm not completely wrong (a 1 minute
> > search shows it's in the ballpark) we could perhaps add something like
> > "Unsupported platforms include (but isn't limited to) Windows and macOS"
> which
> > would provide a bit more clarity.
>
> 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?

Thank you?

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>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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