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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Postgres <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: posix_fadvise v22
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:55:15 -0500
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"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Am I correct in thinking that the only thing we're really checking for
> here is whether a trivial posix_fadvise() call returns success?  If
> so, is this test really worth doing?

Runtime tests performed during configure are generally a bad idea to
start with --- it's impossible to do any such thing in a
cross-compilation scenario, for example.

			regards, tom lane

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