On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's even worse than that. Two processes can both be fiddling hint bits on > different tuples (or even the same tuple) at the same time.
Agreed. Back to the double-buffer idea, we could have a temporary BLCKSZ buffer we could use immediately before write() which we could copy the block to, perform the checksum on, and write out... is that what you were thinking Tom? -- Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA myYearbook.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers