From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Caching by Postgres
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:11:58 -0700
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PFC,

> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Now, Hans Reiser has expressed interest on the Re=
iserFS list in
> tweaking =A0 his Reiser4 especially for Postgres. In his own words, he wa=
nts
> a "Killer app for reiser4". Reiser4 will offser transactional semantics v=
ia
> a special reiser4 syscall, so it might be possible, with a minimum of
> changes to postgres (ie maybe just another sync mode besides fsync,
> fdatasync et al) to use this. Other interesting details were exposed on t=
he
> reiser list, too (ie. a transactional filesystems can give ACID guarantees
> to postgres without the need for fsync()).

Really?  Cool, I'd like to see that.   Could you follow up with Hans?  Or g=
ive=20
me his e-mail?

=2D-=20
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco