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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
Cc: Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ice-broker scan thread
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:01:53 -0500
Message-ID: <29795.1133236913@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0511291429330.18112@linuxworld.com.au>
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Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> I haven't had time to prototype whether we can easily implement async IO

Just as with any suggestion to depend on threads, you are going to have
to show results that border on astounding to have any chance of getting
this in.  Otherwise the portability issues are just going to make it not
worth the trouble.

			regards, tom lane



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