From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jignesh K. Shah <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Chris Mair <list@1006.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, markir@paradise.net.nz, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: bad performance on Solaris 10
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:52:30 -0400
Message-ID: <9622.1144903950@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443DAF1D.6090007@sun.com>
References: <200604121956.k3CJuH717290@candle.pha.pa.us>
<443DAF1D.6090007@sun.com>
"Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
> Many times PostgreSQL has many things based on assumption that it will
> run on Linux and it is left to Solaris to emulate that behavior.
Au contraire --- PG tries its best to be OS-agnostic. I've personally
resisted people trying to optimize it by putting in Linux-specific
behavior. The above sounds to me like making excuses for a poor OS.
(And yes, I will equally much resist any requests to put in Solaris-
specific behavior...)
regards, tom lane
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