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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 15:15:08 -0500
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Tom,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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".


Agreed.
Hopefully someone can put this in…


Thx.


>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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